INTRAOPERATIVE BLOOD-LOSS IN MIDTRIMESTER DILATATION AND EXTRACTION

  • 1 January 1983
    • journal article
    • research article
    • Vol. 62  (1) , 69-72
Abstract
Intraoperative blood loss was evaluated in 215 patients undergoing a midtrimester dilatation and extraction procedure using a paracervical-intracervical block. Patients were assigned to 4 randomized drug regimens using a combination of 0.5% bupivacaine, dilute epinephrine and methyl-ergonovine maleate. From these 4 regimens, a select group of patients were given fentanyl. No significant difference in blood loss was observed in any group at < 17 wk gestation. Only in gestations of .gtoreq. 17 wk was there a significant increase in blood loss, and this increase was associated specifically with the use of fentanyl in the nonrandomized selected group.

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