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- Title
The persufflator: an insufflation device for laparoscopy and especially for CO2-laser-endoscopic surgery*.
- Authors
Koninckx, Philippe R.; Vandermeersch, Eugene
- Abstract
A new insufflation device for laparoscopic surgery has been developed which permits the persufflatlon of the abdominal cavity with humidified CO at 37°C, with flow rates of 4 l/min/mm of mercury (3 l/min/cm of water) insufilation pressure, i.e. 60 l/mm for an insufflation pressure of 15 mm of mercury (20 cm of water). The device consists essentially of an operative laparoscope with a large side opening of 7 mm internal diameter, and a pressure valve limiting the insufflation pressure. The device is safe, since the intra-abdominal pressure can never exceed the insufflation prure. The device has been extensively tested in >500 CO-laser- endoscopic procedures and has proven to be safe and useful. Smoke can be constantly removed and the pneumoperitoneum is unaffected even by the removal or leakage of large volumes of CO from the pneumoperitoneum.
- Publication
Human Reproduction, 1991, Vol 6, Issue 9, p1288
- ISSN
0268-1161
- Publication type
Article