INSTANTANEOUS BLOOD LOSS DETERMINATION DURING THORACIC SURGERY

Hypoxia during Thoracic Surgery

Intravenous Procaine During Thoracic Surgery

Blood loss in vaginal surgery.

Dog 1 developed ventricular asystole and apnoea thus followed a cardiac death. In the remaining 5 dogs apnoea preceded cardiac standstill. The blood gas values in all 6 animals made it unlikely that failure of the respiratory centre occurred because of primary pulmonary pathology. In animals 5, 8 and 9, cardiac output and related haemodynamic data suggest that apnoea resulted from inadequate bl...

Blood loss during prostatectomy.

PROSTATECTOMY is an operation in which all surgeons, however skilled, sometimes have difficulty in controlling haemorrhage. As the operation is usually done in elderly men who cannot withstand severe haemorrhage, it is important to estimate the blood loss and to replace it; alternatively the anaesthetist can take steps to diminish the bleeding by lowering the blood pressure. Figures for the mea...

Managing hypoxemia during minimally invasive thoracic surgery.

An ever-increasing number of thoracic procedures are being performed through minimally invasive techniques. Although the incidence of hypoxemia during one-lung ventilation (OLV) has decreased over the years, it remains an issue in roughly 10% of cases. Algorithms for the management of OLV hypoxemia have to be adapted to the thoracoscopic approach, in particular the need for optimal surgical exp...