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Preparing Your Office
The NovaSure Procedure is a simple, safe, and successful treatment for menorrhagia that can be performed in-office. Your patients can be treated for heavy menstrual bleeding without the need for IV Sedation. In your office, the patients can undergo the NovaSure Procedure in comfortable, familiar surroundings, rather than a hospital or surgical center. The flexibility of an in-office procedure will allow you to make and keep your own schedule.
A physician prepared to perform the NovaSure Procedure in-office should have space they can dedicate to surgical procedures.
Recommended equipment for performing the NovaSure® Procedure in an office setting
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- BP/pulse monitor
- Oxygen delivery system (face mask or nasal canulae) with end tidal CO2 monitor
- Pulse oximeter
- Resuscitation kit (Banyan Stat)
- Crash cart
- 5.5 mm diagnostic hysteroscope (optional)
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| NovaSure® Endometrial Ablation Procedure |
- NovaSure Endometrial Ablation procedure device and RF controller
- Miller speculum (open sided)
- Hegar dilators in sizes up to 9 mm
- Dressing forceps
- Two single-tooth tenacula
- Uterine sound
- Paracervical block (kit available or 2-10 cc syringes, 18 g needle, 22 g spinal needle, 30 cc vial 1% lidocaine)
- Drapes: 2.5 sheets (Kimberly-Clark #89101), leggings (Kimberly-Clarke #89408) or use four sterile towels
- 4x4 x-ray detectable sponges (Kendall #7317, ten per pack)
- Sterile gown (Kimberly-Clark #90012)
- Sterile gloves for surgeon
- Betadine for prep
- Optional instrumentation: weighted speculum, Simms retractor, small Deaver
- 16 fr straight cath (optional)
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Physicians should have experience performing similar outpatient gynecologic procedures and ideally should have worked with, or under the supervision of, an experienced operator.
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