The Danger of Time-Consuming Operative Laparoscopies: Avoiding Severe Complications

Outpatient tonsilloadenoidectomy: avoiding complications

Especially during the last decade, tonsillectomy and adenoidectomy (T&A) have been performed increasingly in outpatient surgery facilities. Although complications following T&A are infrequent, they can be serious and have a precipitous onset. Hemorrhage and acute airway obstruction are among the most feared sequelae, and certain patterns have emerged depicting the circumstances under which thes...

Post-operative fluid complications.

Operative and postoperative complications

A retrospective study of the effects of silicone oil removal was carried out on 85 patients who had undergone pars plana vitrectomy and silicone oil exchange for giant retinal tears or proliferative vitreoretinopathy. Silicone oil was removed either as part of the treatment of anterior segment complications such as glaucoma and keratopathy (25 patients) or in order to prevent these complication...

Ureterorenoscopy: Avoiding and Managing the Complications

Retrograde exploration of the ureter and kidneys is currently a widely used and well-established procedure to deal with problems of a diagnostic and therapeutic nature with reduced invasiveness. The process of miniaturizing the instruments combined with the steady improvement in video quality has continuously amplified its potential applications, maintaining the procedure safe and rapid. During...

Ureterorenoscopy: avoiding and managing the complications.

Retrograde exploration of the ureter and kidneys is currently a widely used and well-established procedure to deal with problems of a diagnostic and therapeutic nature with reduced invasiveness. The process of miniaturizing the instruments combined with the steady improvement in video quality has continuously amplified its potential applications, maintaining the procedure safe and rapid. During...