How Safe Is the Intravasation Limit in Hysteroscopic Surgery?

Journal of Minimally Invasive Gynecology

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 355-361

  Rademaker, B M P ^a   van Kesteren, P J M ^a   de Haan, P ^a   Rademaker, D ^b   France, C ^c  

^a Department of Anesthesiology ^*  (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Capnography; Diathermia; Embolism; Gas; Hemoglobin oxygen saturation; Hysteroscopy; Intravasation; Myoma; Pathophysiology; St segment changes

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; GAS EMBOLISM; HUMAN; HYSTEROSCOPIC SURGERY; HYSTEROSCOPY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MYOMA; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PATIENT MONITORING; PHYSIOLOGICAL PROCESS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; SAFETY; SURGICAL INSTRUMENT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

ADULT; EMBOLISM, AIR; FEMALE; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMANS; HYSTEROSCOPY; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; MIDDLE AGED; MYOMA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SORBITOL; UTERINE NEOPLASMS;

EID: 79955544529     PISSN: 15534650     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmig.2011.01.010     Document Type: Article

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