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Abstract
is an important component of the strategy
for evaluation of the uterus in women with abnormal uterine
bleeding, infertility, and recurrent pregnancy loss, and is
essential for performance of many minimally invasive intrauterine
therapeutic interventions including metroplasty,
transcervical sterilization, lysis of adhesions, retrieval of
foreign bodies, and excision of polyps and
submucousmyomas. Although for a number of years, many
clinicians have successfully performed hysteroscopic
procedures in the office setting with no or local anesthesia,
most continue to provide these services in the context of an
institutional operating room setting, usually with the support of
an anesthesiologist providing some type of conscious sedation,
or regional or general anesthesia. The direct and the indirect
costs of performing such procedures in resource-intense
environments, along with greater recognition of the risk of
general anesthesia, has generated an increased interest in the
performance of hysteroscopy in the office setting using local
anesthesia.
Although safe, studies of the acceptability of outpatient
hysteroscopy have displayed various completion rates, ranging
between 77% and 97.2%.