Laparoscopic spectral analysis of endometriosis.

Study Objective: To determine if lesions of endometriosis will preferentially absorb light of the blue spectrum thus enabling the detection of nonvisualized disease.

Design: Retrospective analysis (Canadian Task Force classification II-2).

Setting: University based teaching hospital.

Pain mapping of adhesions.

Study Objective: To determine the nature and location of adhesions and their relationship to abdominal pain in patients undergoing awake microlaparoscopy.

Design: Retrospective analysis (Canadian Task Force classification II-1).

Setting: University teaching hospital.

Intravesicular pain mapping.

The lack of success with the physician-only approach to bladder pain and interstitial cystitis demonstrates the need for a fresh new method. Such an approach, in which the patient becomes an integral part of the operating team, verifying that the operative findings are the source of the pain and that treatment of these areas will lead to the resolution of the pain, needs to be examined further.

Complications of microlaparoscopy and awake laparoscopy.

Complications of laparoscopy are categorized into trocar insertion complications, complications resulting from image quality, and complications resulting from instrumentation. Microlaparoscopy also has similar complications and additional complications when being performed in the awake patient. Each of these complications is reviewed as they apply to microlaparoscopy.

Effect of heating and humidifying gas on patients undergoing awake laparoscopy.

Study Objective: To determine the effect of heating and humidifying CO2 on the tolerance of awake laparoscopy and frequency of shoulder pain and patient recovery.

Design: Randomized, controlled study (Canadian Task Force classification I).

Setting: University-affiliated hospital.