For most prospective mothers, pain in childbirth is their greatest fear. However, intolerable labour pain should no longer be accepted by the health professions. Without adequate pain control in labour fetal damage can be significant. Moreover, if relief from pain is a fundamental human right then surely standards of good obstetric care should include a definition of adequate pain relief in labour and obstetricians should pay due attention to alleviating that pain. At present actions in tort focus on poor medical management of injuries or diseases. Pain and suffering are generally a secondary consequence of that negligence although in the tort of negligence pain can constitute damage. However, it is argued that failure to address pain adequ...
Pain and fear are high on the list of reasons that women give for seeking hospital admission when t...
The capacity of human neonates to experience pain has been established and recognized for decades. C...
Since centuries the man worries for making more pleasant and less painful the birth. In the last yea...
Within surgical disciplines, obstetrics and anesthesia carry a greater risk of medicolegal liability...
Over 100 years ago midwifery was unable to combat successfully the high incidence of maternal deaths...
Until the nineteenth century when labour pain became a technical problem to be solved, such pain was...
Pain is a defining element of the labouring women's experience. This article explores and discusses ...
Pain in labour is peculiar because it happens usually in helthy people, with a specific temporal seq...
Pain of parturition is one of the worst types of pain that may be experienced by a human being, inc...
The advances in perinatal care have led to a significant increase in neonatal survival rate but also...
Labor pain was a problem that has not received special attention, even though the goal of intrapartu...
Most people prefer not to inflict gratuitous pain on other sentient beings, especially other humans....
An indispensable part of the delivery is pain. Many factors influence the way a woman feels pain dur...
In the late 1960s and the mid 1970s the reproductive health indices from the developing countries, p...
BackgroundMost women experience pain during labour and after childbirth. There are various options, ...
Pain and fear are high on the list of reasons that women give for seeking hospital admission when t...
The capacity of human neonates to experience pain has been established and recognized for decades. C...
Since centuries the man worries for making more pleasant and less painful the birth. In the last yea...
Within surgical disciplines, obstetrics and anesthesia carry a greater risk of medicolegal liability...
Over 100 years ago midwifery was unable to combat successfully the high incidence of maternal deaths...
Until the nineteenth century when labour pain became a technical problem to be solved, such pain was...
Pain is a defining element of the labouring women's experience. This article explores and discusses ...
Pain in labour is peculiar because it happens usually in helthy people, with a specific temporal seq...
Pain of parturition is one of the worst types of pain that may be experienced by a human being, inc...
The advances in perinatal care have led to a significant increase in neonatal survival rate but also...
Labor pain was a problem that has not received special attention, even though the goal of intrapartu...
Most people prefer not to inflict gratuitous pain on other sentient beings, especially other humans....
An indispensable part of the delivery is pain. Many factors influence the way a woman feels pain dur...
In the late 1960s and the mid 1970s the reproductive health indices from the developing countries, p...
BackgroundMost women experience pain during labour and after childbirth. There are various options, ...
Pain and fear are high on the list of reasons that women give for seeking hospital admission when t...
The capacity of human neonates to experience pain has been established and recognized for decades. C...
Since centuries the man worries for making more pleasant and less painful the birth. In the last yea...