Anaesthesia for carbon dioxide laser laryngeal surgery in infants

Anaesthesia for intra-laryngeal laser surgery.

Tim LASER (Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation), was first introduced into medicine about a decade ago, and within this relatively short time, has added a new dimension to medical science. A variety of substances (solids and gases) can stimulate laser emissions. Lasers vary in wavelength and physical properties. These variations make them useful for a variety of clinical and...

Carbon Dioxide Laser Microsurgery for Laryngeal and Hypopharyngeal Cancer

Carbon dioxide output in spontaneously breathing infants during anaesthesia and surgery.

Twenty-eight infants were anaesthetized with halothane, nitrous oxide and oxygen and allowed to breathe spontaneously through a non-rebreathing system during minor paediatric surgery. Carbon dioxide output was correlated negatively with body weight for infants greater than 10 kg, but not for children less than 10 kg. Carbon dioxide output was unchanged compared with before surgery.

Zenker's Diverticulum: Carbon Dioxide Laser Endoscopic Surgery

Nowadays endoscopic diverticulotomy is the surgical approach of the first choice in treatment of Zenker's diverticulum. We report our experience with this procedure and try to sum up recent recommendations for management of surgery and postoperative care. Data of 34 patients with Zenker's diverticulum, treated by endoscopic carbon dioxide laser diverticulotomy at the Department of Otorhinolaryn...

Transoral robot-assisted carbon dioxide laser surgery for hypopharyngeal cancer.

BACKGROUND Transoral robotic surgery (TORS) has been used as a novel procedure for the resection of laryngopharyngeal cancers with promising outcomes. There are several studies proposing the benefit of combining TORS with a carbon dioxide (CO2 ) laser in resecting upper aerodigestive tract tumors. The purpose of this study was to illustrate transoral robot-assisted carbon dioxide laser surgery ...