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EVACUATION OF RETAINED PRODUCTS OF CONCEPTION IN A TREATMENT ROOM AND WITHOUT GENERAL ANAESTHESIA
Author(s) -
Fllshie G. M.,
Sanders R. R.,
O'Brien P. M. S.,
Overton J.,
Khattab T.,
Oats J. J. N.
Publication year - 1977
Publication title -
bjog: an international journal of obstetrics and gynaecology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.157
H-Index - 164
eISSN - 1471-0528
pISSN - 1470-0328
DOI - 10.1111/j.1471-0528.1977.tb12636.x
Subject(s) - general anaesthesia , anesthesia , medicine
Summary One hundred patients with an incomplete abortion, 14 patients with retained products of conception after a second trimester termination, 5 patients with missed abortion and 2 patients with secondary postpartum haemorrhages (making a total of 121 patients) had a uterine evacuation in a treatment room using the portable Karman curette equipment. No general anaesthesia was used but patients were given intravenous pethidine or papavaretum (Omnopon) and diazepam. Four patients found the procedure painful but only two of them would have preferred general anaesthesia. There were no immediate complications but three patients required re‐evacuation of the uterus.