Practical Procedures in Minor Gynecology

Abstract

There are many phases of gynecology embracing diagnosis and treatment that can be performed in the clinic or doctor's office. It may be generally stated that with ordinary precautions, relative mainly to asepsis and analgesia, many surgical-like procedures can be carried out in the ambulant patient. The use of local infiltration anesthesia of 1 per cent novocaine with or without a sedative barbiturate will allow for methods that would otherwise be carried out in a hospital. At the Cook County Hospital Gynecology Outpatient Clinic, the instruments and methods employed are, by necessity, the simplest possible. Some of the practical procedures carried out at this clinic will be presented.