Intraperitoneal Blood Transfusion

Tubal Ectopic Pregnancy

“…It is commonly believed that this pain is due to peritoneal irritation by the blood, but this may not be so. Intraperitoneal blood infusion is almost painless (Cole and Montgomery, 1929;McDougall, 1958;Mellish and Wolman, 1958);and Mengert et al (1951) showed that intraperitoneal infusion of up to 300 ml. of blood produced only a feeling of fullness.…”