The take home message of the systematic review and meta-analysis on local anaesthesia during outpatient hysteroscopy is misleading.1 The conclusion, “Injectable, preferably paracervical, administration of local anaesthetic should be used for women undergoing hysteroscopy as outpatients to reduce the amount of pain experienced,” is based on five randomised trials, two of which found paracervical blocks to be ineffective. …
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Gambadauro et al. (2010) studied this question.