In Reference to Effects of Nitrous Oxide on Intracuff Pressure of Laryngeal Mask Airway and Occurrence of Postoperative Sore Throat

Abstract

Three years ago, I published an article called "Pregnancy Loss, Bereavement, and Conscientious Objection in Perioperative Services" in the Journal of PeriAnesthesia Nursing (Catlin, 2018, 33(4), 553-559). The paper topic was termination of pregnancy and the ethical role of perioperative nurses. Although I focused upon controversies in conscientious objection and bereavement support, there was never a thought in my mind that a mere three years later I would be lamenting over the lack of termination services at all.In my writing, I took for granted the following: perioperative services, sterile conditions, timely lifesaving interventions, well-trained physicians, pain medication, and the option of ending gestation of the fetus with serious genetic anomaly or a threat to a woman's physical or mental health. Now, as I write, these services are disappearing, and not a day goes by without another group of elected officials, most often men, closing the doors on these services. Now, in many places, if that pregnancy termination is desired, a woman may need to travel long distances, pay large sums for necessary medical care, or carry that pregnancy to term and simply live with the consequences.Three years ago, in this same paper, I wrote about the Codes of Ethics from the American Nurses Association, the Association of DOI of original article: http://dx.doi