Burns sustained whilst priming the carburetor: an Australian perspective.

Priming the carburetor is a method that is still commonly practiced amongst trained, amateur, and backyard mechanics. This article aims to look at the data available between 1996 and 2004 in two burns units in South Australia and Queensland. The authors were interested in the number of patients admitted with burns related to the activity of priming the carburetor, the TBSA percentage of burns, and areas affected.

Complications of retained intraperitoneal gallstones from laparoscopic cholecystectomy.

Laparoscopic cholecystectomy is now the gold standard procedure for the treatment of symptomatic gall bladder stones. Spillage of gall bladder stones into the peritoneal cavity may occur due to inadvertent iatrogenic gall bladder perforation during dissection of the gall bladder. We report a case of a 66 year old woman who had to return to theatre three times over two years to deal with complications from retained intra-peritoneal gallstones that were spilt at her initial laparoscopic cholecystecomy.

Prospective audit of laparoscopic cholecystectomy experience at a secondary referral centre in South australia.

Background: Laparoscopic cholecystectomy is now the gold standard procedure for symptomatic gallstone disease. Nevertheless, there are still several controversies such as the need for routine intraoperative cholangiogram (IOC), the indications for and results of early laparoscopic cholecystectomy in the setting of acute cholecystitis and the use of endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography versus laparoscopic common bile duct (CBD) exploration for intraoperatively detected choledocholithiasis. The aim of this study was to investigate some of these controversies.