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Anesthesia and Analgesia for Women Undergoing Oocyte Retrieval

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Attempts at producing a state of general anesthesia can be traced throughout history in the writings of the ancient Sumerians, Babylonians, Assyrians, Egyptians, Greeks, Romans, Indians, and Chinese. The Renaissance made significant advances in anatomy and surgical techniques, despite all this progress only with the discovery and introduction of general anesthesia in late eighteenth century permitted development of modern surgery.

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Notes

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    Monitored Anesthesia Care (“MAC”) does not describe the continuum of depth of sedation, rather it describes “a specific anesthesia service in which an anesthesiologist has been requested to participate in the care of a patient undergoing a diagnostic or therapeutic procedure.”

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    Reflex withdrawal from a painful stimulus is NOT considered a purposeful response.

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    Rescue of a patient from a deeper level of sedation than intended is an intervention by a practitioner proficient in airway management and advanced life support. The qualified practitioner corrects adverse physiologic consequences of the deeper-than-intended level of sedation (such as hypoventilation, hypoxia, and hypotension) and returns the patient to the originally intended level of sedation. It is not appropriate to continue the procedure at an unintended level of sedation.

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    Renata Beck & Agostino Brizzi

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    Gilda Cinnella

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  4. Department of Anesthesia for Obstetrics and Maternal Fetal & Neonatal Medicine, La Jolla, CA, USA

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Beck, R., Brizzi, A., Cinnella, G., Raimondo, P., Kuczkowski, K.M. (2020). Anesthesia and Analgesia for Women Undergoing Oocyte Retrieval. In: Malvasi, A., Baldini, D. (eds) Pick Up and Oocyte Management. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-28741-2_7

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