In reproductive medicine, sedation has been increasingly used for painful procedures, mainly, transvaginal recovery of oocytes from the ovary and when needed, surgical sperm retrieval may also be necessary. The primary goal is to provide safe and effective analgesia, allowing the patient to tolerate the procedure, allowing the surgeon optimal surgical conditions to collect the oocytes, and promoting speedy post-operative recovery. Sedation has been an increasingly popular approach to provide these optimal conditions.

In this episode, Andreia Trigo, Martin Lees and Craig Cook are joined by Diana Baranowski, fertility nurse manager at Care Fertility, to talk about sedation and capnography in reproductive medicine, how it allows patients to tolerate these procedures comfortably and how to introduce it in clinical practice.

This episode is sponsored by Medtronic Microstream Monitoring.  Get more information about this monitor and the micro stream filter line here:

https://www.medtronic.com/covidien/en-gb/clinical-solutions/sedation-outside-operating-room.html# 

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