Hypnose en anesthésie et analgésie en obstétrique et en gynécologie.

Hypnosis is an altered state of consciousness, spontaneous or induced, different from the sleep and waking state. Hypnosis increases the thresholds of pain sensation by reducing its cognitive and affective components. The conversational hypnosis, based on the positive language, is commonly used by the caregivers. The formal hypnosis is the basis of the hypnosedation and the hypnoanalgesia. This technique complete our therapeutic and clinical tools in obstetric anesthesia and analgesia: analgesia for childbirth or antenatal diagnosis, anesthesia for cesarean section, especially emergency CS, and assistance to the management of pregnancy associated pathologies such as preeclampsia, premature rupture of membranes and post-partum hemorrhage; but also assisted procreation, oncology, breast surgery and gynecology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]