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Rapid hypnosis as an anaesthesia adjunct for evacuation of postpartum vulval haematoma
Author(s) -
WONG Lufee,
CYNA Allan M.,
MATTHEWS Geoffrey
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
australian and new zealand journal of obstetrics and gynaecology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.734
H-Index - 65
eISSN - 1479-828X
pISSN - 0004-8666
DOI - 10.1111/j.1479-828x.2011.01310.x
Subject(s) - hypnosis , medicine , adjunct , general anaesthesia , anesthesia , general anaesthetic , pain relief , surgery , alternative medicine , philosophy , linguistics , pathology
Hypnosis can be a useful therapeutic adjunct to pharmacological analgesia or anaesthesia in obstetrics. However, it is rarely considered a primary anaesthetic technique and is seldom employed in the acute surgical setting. Few obstetricians and anaesthetists currently utilise this technique in their clinical practice. We present a case report of a 34‐year‐old woman who successfully underwent evacuation of a large vulval haematoma using the simple hypnosis technique of ‘believed‐in imagination’ as the principal anaesthetic technique with only minimal adjunctive pharmacological analgesia.