Some fertility clinics may not use anesthesia-based propofol for egg retrievals, potentially leading to patients experiencing extreme pain if fentanyl is also omitted or misused.
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“I mean there was this huge right the retrievals podcast came out from like the new York Times doing a deep dive into a fertility clinic Yale where a nurse was siphoning off fenel for herself for herself and replacing it with saline and giving patients saline these this Clinic did not do anesthesia based propofol so they were supposed to just get fentel and have kind of a less pain environment not a no pain environment and not not just a few hundreds of women reported extreme pain extreme pain through the procedure”
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Some fertility clinics may not use anesthesia-based propofol for egg retrievals, potentially leading to patients experiencing extreme pain if fentanyl is also omitted or misused. — Whalespan