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Pain during pregnancy and labor may result from a myriad of physiologic, hormonal, anatomic, psychologic, and pathologic factors. Presented are basic principles of pain management in pregnancy, and an overview of causes, clinical findings, diagnostics, and treatments of pregnancy-related pain.
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Livelsberger, J., Bruno, C., Kamel, I. (2019). Causes of Pain and Principles of Pain Management in Pregnancy. In: Abd-Elsayed, A. (eds) Pain. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-99124-5_212
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