Laparoscopy in infants: close intraoperative hemodynamic monitoring for patient safety

The impact of intraoperative monitoring on patient safety.

There is much more to study and learn about prevention of anesthesia complications and how technology may improve the safety and outcome of anesthesia. Large trials have never shown that a specific hemodynamic monitoring technique improves outcome. In controlled situations, oximetry and capnography have demonstrated efficacy in early detection of events that could be harmful during anesthesia. ...

Choosing patient-tailored hemodynamic monitoring

Laparoscopy in Children and Infants

The “first do no harm” ethics of medical care has its age-long influence manifested in the continual search for the least invasive method of administering treatment to the patient. The advancement of the minimally invasive surgery has therefore been a very welcome development in surgical specialities with paediatric surgery not left behind in this quest. Laparoscopy is the visual inspection of ...

Patient Safety on intraoperative MR Imaging in a two room

As early as 1997 the first clinical publications showed the clinical benefits of using intra-operative Magnetic Resonance Imaging: “Intra-operative MRI can be expected to increase the degree and accuracy of resection” . Other studies have looked at post-operative MRI imaging and indicate that intra-operative MRI would have had an influence on the clinical outcome . All recent studies concur tha...

Echocardiographic Hemodynamic Monitoring in the Critically Ill Patient

Echocardiography has shown to be an essential diagnostic tool in the critically ill patient's assessment. In this scenario the initial fluid therapy, such as it is recommended in the actual clinical guidelines, not always provides the desired results and maintains a considerable incidence of cardiorrespiratory insufficiency. Echocardiography can council us on these patients' clinical handling, ...