A randomized prospective comparative study of general versus epidural anesthesia for transcervical hysteroscopic endometrial resection

Article Abstract:

General anesthesia may be better than spinal anesthesia for removing the endometrium in women with uncontrollable uterine bleeding. In a study of 24 women, those who had general anesthesia were less likely to absorb the 1.5% glycine solution that is used to irrigate the uterus.

Care and treatment, Evaluation, Surgery, Anesthesia, Endometrium, Uterine bleeding, Uterine hemorrhage

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Induction of labor with use of a Foley catheter and extraamniotic corticosteroids

Article Abstract:

Injection of dexamethasone through the cervix may shorten the time from induction of labor to delivery. Ninety-eight women requiring cervical ripening, softening and thinning of the cervix, and induction of labor had Foley balloon catheters inserted through the cervix and either saline or dexamethasone was injected. Intravenous oxytocin was administered to induce labor. The 50 women treated with dexamethasone experienced shorter intervals between induction and active labor and shorter times between induction and delivery than the 48 women in the group receiving saline only.

Methods, Dosage and administration, Dexamethasone, Labor, Induced (Obstetrics), Induced labor

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Progression of labor in twin versus singleton gestations

Article Abstract:

sThe first stage of obstetrical labor is much shorter in women carrying two fetuses than in singleton gestations. Researchers compared 163 women carrying twins and 163 women carrying single fetuses in the progression of labor. The cervical dilatation was smaller on hospital admission, and labor from 4-10 cm. of cervical dilatation was about 25% shorter, for women carrying twins. This difference did not emerge among women who had previously given birth.

Physiological aspects, Labor (Obstetrics), Multiple birth

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