9111-801 Courtiss
Courtiss EH, Kanter MA, Kanter WR, Ransil BJ.
The effect of epinephrine on blood loss during suction lipectomy.
Plast Reconstr Surg. 1991 Nov;88(5):801-3. PMID: 1924565 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
Comment in:
Plast Reconstr Surg. 1992 Jul;90(1):136-8.
Plast Reconstr Surg. 1992 Sep;90(3):536-7.
Division of Plastic Surgery, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass.
In a prospective, double-blind, controlled study on 26 consecutive patients who
underwent suction lipectomy, the injection of epinephrine (1:250,000, 1:500,000,
or 1:1,000,000) was not found to decrease fluid/blood loss when compared with
saline injection or no injection at all. Since our study fails to support the
use of epinephrine to lessen fluid/blood loss during suction lipectomy, we have
abandoned its use in that procedure.
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