Preoperative Gabapentin for Minimally Invasive Hysterectomy: A Randomized Controlled Trial.

Study Objective: To evaluate whether a single dose of gabapentin given preoperatively reduces narcotic use 24 hours after minimally invasive hysterectomy (MIH).

Design: Randomized controlled trial.

Setting: Single academic-affiliated community hospital.

Topical hemostatic and tissue-sealing agents in gynecologic surgery.

Purpose Of Review: To review current topical hemostatic agent use and how it pertains to gynecologic surgery.

Recent Findings: Recent literature suggests some benefit of topical hemostatic agents (THA). THAs confer reduced bleeding and shorter operating room time in women undergoing hysterectomy for cancer and in abdominal myomectomy.

Prenatal care in a specialized diabetes in pregnancy program improves compliance with postpartum testing in GDM women.

Objective: To evaluate whether prenatal care in a specialized diabetes in pregnancy program (DMC) improves compliance with completion of the 2-h 75 g oral glucose tolerance test (2HrOGTT) in GDM women.

Methods: A retrospective cohort study of GDM women delivering in a university health system between January 2011 and March 2014 was performed. Women were divided into two groups: those receiving care in prenatal clinics over an 18-month period prior to the establishment of the diabetes in pregnancy clinic (pre-DMC) and those receiving prenatal care in a specialized diabetes in pregnancy clinic (post-DMC).