Is using ethanol-glycine irrigating fluid monitoring and 'good surgical practice' enough to prevent harmful absorption during transurethral resection of the prostate?

BJU International

Volumn 97, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1247-1251

  Collins, Justin W ^a,c   Macdermott, Seamus ^b   Bradbrook, Richard A ^b   Keeley Jr , Frank X ^a   Timoney, Anthony G ^a  

^a BRISTOL UROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^b TORBAY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c SOUTHMEAD HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adverse events; Breath ethanol; Glycine; Irrigation fluid; TUR syndrome; TURP

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; GLYCINE;

ABSORPTION; ADULT; AGED; ANION EXCHANGE CHROMATOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; BLADDER IRRIGATION; BREATH ANALYSIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; CORRELATION FUNCTION; GOOD SURGICAL PRACTICE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OPERATION DURATION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATECTOMY; SAFETY; SURGEON; TRANSURETHRAL RESECTION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS, LOCAL; ETHANOL; GLYCINE; HUMANS; IRRIGATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PROSTATIC HYPERPLASIA; TRANSURETHRAL RESECTION OF PROSTATE;

EID: 33745218960     PISSN: 14644096     EISSN: 1464410X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1464-410X.2006.06208.x     Document Type: Article

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