Abstract
Pain is defined by the International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP) as ‘an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience primarily associated with actual or potential tissue damage or described in terms of such damage.’
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Coluzzi, F. (2014). Postoperative Analgesia. In: Alemanno, F., Bosco, M., Barbati, A. (eds) Anesthesia of the Upper Limb. Springer, Milano. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-88-470-5418-9_15
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