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Canadian Journal of Anesthesia, Vol 5, 419-422, Copyright © 1958 by Canadian Anesthesiologists' Society

Trichlorethylene Anaesthesia in Obstetrics: A Report

R. D. SCRAGG M.D.1

1 Royal Alexandra Hospital, Edmonton, Alberta

A series of over 30,000 maternity cases, in which trichlorethylene was used as the main anaesthetic agent is presented.

There was no maternal death attributable to the anaesthetic technique. Of these cases 19,645 were done in the Royal Alexandra Hospital in Edmonton. The perinatal death rate was 2.6 per cent. The neonatal death rate was 1.4 per cent. At the University of Alberta Hospital, where 10,000 cases were done, the neonatal death rate was 2.9 per cent. The perinatal death rate was 1.6 per cent. In the Edmonton General Hospital, where 5,000 cases were done, the neonatal death rate in this series was 1.8 per cent and the perinatal death rate was 3.03 per cent. These death rates are uncorrected for such things as congenital deformities.

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Presented at a meeting of the Western Divisions, Canadian Anaesthetists' Society, Calgary, Alta., March 13, 1958.






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