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- Title
Laparoscopic cholecystectomy with carbon dioxide pneumoperitoneum is safe even for high-risk patients.
- Authors
Koivusalo, A-M; Pere, P; Valjus, M; Scheinin, T
- Abstract
Because of absorbed carbon dioxide (CO(2)) and elevated intraabdominal pressure (IAP), CO(2) pneumoperitoneum (CO(2)PP) has potentially harmful intraoperative circulatory and ventilatory effects. Although not clinically significant for healthy patients, these effects are assumed to be deleterious for patients with a high risk for anesthesia (American Society of Anesthesiology [ASA] 3 and 4) and significant cardiopulmonary, renal, or hepatic diseases. The authors assessed CO(2)PP-related adverse effects by comparing ASA 3 and 4 patients who underwent laparoscopic cholecystectomy (LC) with or without CO(2)PP.
- Publication
Surgical endoscopy, 2008, Vol 22, Issue 1, p61
- ISSN
1432-2218
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1007/s00464-007-9300-2