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Local anaesthetic administration for IUD/IUS insertions
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  1. Ann Eady, RGN, A08
  1. Nurse Specialist, The Margaret Pyke Centre, London, UK; ann_eady@hotmail.com

https://doi.org/10.1136/jfprhc-2011-100183

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    I refer to the recent correspondence in this Journal regarding the administration of local anaesthetic (LA) prior to intrauterine device (IUD) and intrauterine system (IUS) insertions.1,–,5

    I am a clinical nurse specialist who has been fitting intrauterine contraceptives since the early 1990s and learnt to give LA initially with Luer syringes before we changed to dental syringes. I endorse the sentiments of Drs …

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