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Re: Rubin's test/uterotubal insufflator From: eugene jursek (ejursek@neoucom.edu) Thu Aug 31 20:41:41 2000 Messages sorted by: [ date ][ thread ][ subject ][ author ] Next message: DoctorJoe@aol.com: "Re: samuel shem" Previous message: Joanne Bulley, MD: "Re: I Sympathize....." Maybe in reply to: Jeffrey W. Clemens: "Rubin's test/uterotubal insufflator" Finished my residency in '63 (1963 that is!) We used the Rubin's insufflator as an office tool to check for patent tubes. The gas was in a cartridge that was inserted into the machine. A weighted moveable cylinder was raised to a certain point to prevent the gas from the cartridge exploding the tubes. Our machine had no graph. We had to put a stethoscope on the abdomen to hear the gurgling of the gas through the tubes. A sure success was diaphragmatic pain when the patient sat up. There was always a worry that the gas came from a patency and not a rupture. We the machine for a number of years. Hysterosalpingograms were used only with a negative Rubins. (Remember, this was long before insurance was widespread.) Ciao. >----- Original Message ----- From: "Jeffrey W. Clemens" <clemens@duq.edu> To: "Multiple recipients of list OB-GYN-L" <ob-gyn-l@forum.obgyn.net> Sent: Thursday, August 31, 2000 3:48 PM Subject: Rubin's test/uterotubal insufflator > Dear Listers, > > I have a second edition of Lisser and Escamilla's "Atlas of Clinical > Endocrinology", CV Mosby Co. 1962 (meaning the book is older than me!). In > the chapter of female infertility, a portable uterotubal insufflation > apparatus for the RUBIN TEST is shown along with three panels of kymograph > tracings. The reference given is to a company publication (Grafax > Instruments, 1955). The caption briefly describes using 1 effervescent > tablet and 4 ml water to create pressures of up to 200 mm Hg. > > Anyone out there ever used this apparatus? Has it been replaced by > contrast and dye-based hysterosalpingograms? > > Jeff > -- > Jeffrey W. Clemens, Ph.D. > Assistant Professor, Biological Sciences > Duquesne University > Pittsburgh, PA 15282 > 412-396-4597 > fax-5907 > http://www.home.cc.duq.edu/~clemens/ > Next message: DoctorJoe@aol.com: "Re: samuel shem" Previous message: Joanne Bulley, MD: "Re: I Sympathize....." Maybe in reply to: Jeffrey W. Clemens: "Rubin's test/uterotubal insufflator"

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