Courtiss E H, Kanter M A, Kanter W R, Ransil B J
Division of Plastic Surgery, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass.
Plast Reconstr Surg. 1991 Nov;88(5):801-3. doi: 10.1097/00006534-199111000-00009.
In a prospective, double-blind, controlled study on 26 consecutive patients who underwent suction lipectomy, the injection of epinephrine (1:250,000, 1:500,000, or 1:1,000,000) was not found to decrease fluid/blood loss when compared with saline injection or no injection at all. Since our study fails to support the use of epinephrine to lessen fluid/blood loss during suction lipectomy, we have abandoned its use in that procedure.
