Oxytocin in pregnancy and the postpartum: Relations to labor and its management

Frontiers in Public Health

Volumn 2, Issue JAN, 2014, Pages

  Prevost, Marie ^a   Zelkowitz, Phyllis ^b   Tulandi, Togas ^c   Hayton, Barbara ^b   Feeley, Nancy ^b   Carter, C Sue ^d   Joseph, Lawrence ^a   Pournajafi Nazarloo, Hossein ^d   Ping, Erin Yong ^a   Abenhaim, Haim ^c   Gold, Ian ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Epidural; Labor; Oxytocin; Pregnancy; Syntocinon

Indexed keywords

EID: 84903617050     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22962565     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpubh.2014.00001     Document Type: Article

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