What is the best way to provide postoperative pain therapy after caesarean section?
In the following text recently published data on postoperative pain therapy after caesarean section will be summarized. As most papers discuss epidural and intrathecal strategies of pain relief, these aspects of pain therapy for the often underestimated pain after caesarean section will be emphasized.
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Department of Anesthesiology, University Hospitals Gasthuisberg, Herestraat 49, B-3000 Leuven, Belgium. marc.vandevelde@uz.kuleuven.ac.be