background: deliberate hypotension is a strategy that reduces intraoperative bleeding and increases the speed of surgery in otolaryngology procedures. magnesium (mg) sulfate is a vasodilator agent that reduces intraoperative hypnotic requirements and in combination with analgesic agents, it reduces intraoperative and postoperative pain. in this study we evaluated the use of intravenous mg sulfa...

Citation: Penza V, De Momi E, Enayati N, Chupin T, Ortiz J and Mattos LS (2017) EnViSoRS: Enhanced Vision System for Robotic Surgery. A User-Defined Safety Volume Tracking to Minimize the Risk of Intraoperative Bleeding. Front. Robot. AI 4:15. doi: 10.3389/frobt.2017.00015 enVisors: enhanced Vision system for robotic surgery. a User-Defined safety Volume Tracking to Minimize the risk of intraop...

Patients with disorders of coagulation and bleeding can be among the most challenging surgical patients to manage. Intraoperative or postoperative bleeding can contribute to life-threatening complications in even the most "benign" surgical procedures. An adequate number and function of platelets play a critical role in the coagulation pathway. A thorough understanding of platelet physiology and...

This study aimed to evaluate the efficacy of the LigaSure vessel sealing system (LVSS) when used for esophagectomy. We compared 56 consecutive patients (32 male and 24 female, mean age: 56.64"12.61 years), who had undergone Ivor–Lewis esophagectomy for esophageal carcinoma between January 2005 and May 2009. Among them, from January 2005 to April 2007, 27 patients (group 1) were operated on with...

esophagogastric varices are a frequent complication of portal hypertension. bleeding from ectopic varices of the ileum is not only life-threatening, but its accurate diagnosis is also difficult. we have presented the case of a 31-year-old man with massive hematochezia. he was a known case of non-cirrhotic portal hypertension since 15 years prior. conventional examination that included angiograp...

OBJECTIVE To describe which obstetric patients lose enough blood during postpartum hemorrhage to receive a reinfusion of intraoperative blood salvage. METHODS Eight years of intraoperative blood salvage data from a regional tertiary care maternity hospital were analyzed. The volume of blood returned through intraoperative blood salvage was standardized to the volume of red blood cells in an a...

BACKGROUND Spine surgery is widely accepted as an effective management for patients with lumbar disc herniation; however, the factors influencing intraoperative procedure and prognosis are not fully understood. The present study was aimed to identify the factors influencing intraoperative blood loss, postoperative drainage volume, and recovery in patients undergoing spinal surgery. METHODS We...

BACKGROUND Cerebral arteriovenous (AV) malformation causes, due to the increased blood flow through a malformation, a massive intraoperative bleeding complicating, so, surgical treatment. The use of intraoperative blood saving apparatus during surgery and a recombinant factor VII-a (NovoSeven) significantly reduce complications during surgical treatment. CASE REPORT We reported a case of surg...

OBJECTIVE Our purpose was to evaluate the efficacy and safety of intraoperative autologous blood transfusion during laparoscopic surgery for hemoperitoneum in benign gynecologic disease. METHODS The Cell Saver, Haemo Lite 2, an intraoperative autologous blood salvage device, was used in laparoscopic surgery on 18 patients with ectopic pregnancies or ovarian bleeding who had a large hemoperito...