Anaesthesia for in vitro fertilisation.  Assistant Professor,
Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care, Maulana Azad
Medical College, New Delhi. Indian journal of anaesthesia
08/2009; 53(4):408-13. Source: PubMed  ABSTRACT SUMMARY: In
vitro fertilization is an upcoming speciality. Anaesthesia
during assisted reproductive technique is generally required
during oocyte retrieval, which forms one of the fundamental
steps during the entire procedure. Till date variety of
techniques like conscious sedation, general anaesthesia and
regional anaesthesia has been tried with none being superior to
the other. However irrespective of the technique the key point
of anaesthesia for in vitro fertilization is to provide the
anaesthetic exposure for least duration so as to avoid its
detrimental effects on the embryo cleavage and fertilization.
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main goal of the present retrospective study is to compare four
analgesic methodologies (EMLA cream, propofol,