[Anesthesiological problems and choice in operations for the termination of pregnancy. A study of 1500 cases]

A brief account of the special features of operations for the termination of pregnancy and their associated anaesthesiological problems is followed by presentation of the results of a study of the application of different types of intravenous narcosis (500 cases in the preoperative stage; 1000 cases in the conclusive stage). Reference is made to the features of a method that was found to be very suitable. This provided for the employment of althesin as the basic drug for brief, complication-free, intravenous anaesthesia.