Reduction of laparoscopic-induced hypothermia, postoperative pain and recovery room length of stay by pre-conditioning gas with the Insuflow device: a prospective randomized controlled multi-center study.

Objective: To assess the efficacy and safety of Insuflow (Georgia BioMedical, Inc.) filter heater hydrator device in reducing the incidence, severity and extent of hypothermia, length of recovery room stay and postoperative pain at the time of laparoscopy.

Design: Prospective, randomized, blinded, controlled multi-center study.

Diagnostic and operative microlaparoscopy: a preliminary multicentre report.

Microlaparoscopes have been evaluated for minimally invasive laparoscopy using minimal anaesthesia or analgesia since our preliminary report on microlaparoscopy in 1993. This international multicentre report of safety and efficacy of diagnostic and operative microlaparoscopy was completed to evaluate the role of microlaparoscopy in a wide spectrum of gynaecological indications, diagnoses of pelvic and tubal disease, tubal occlusion and assisted reproduction. A total of 408 patients from seven centres around the world were included in this report.

No scalpel, no iv, no stitch, microendoscopic office laparoscopy under local anesthesia.

Background: The medical literature is replete with articles verifying the usefulness of laparoscopic procedures under local anesthesia. Recent research has examined the efficacy of microendoscopy with local anesthesia. In this series of patients, we focused on new technology to determine if microendoscopy could be utilized in an office setting.

Office laparoscopy under local anesthesia.

It is no secret that health care has changed, and we must change with it. As equipment and drugs become more sophisticated, surgical procedures are becoming less complicated to perform, and patients are experiencing less morbidity and mortality. Industry is continually addressing the product needs of surgeons who are or will be performing office laparoscopy under local anesthesia so that it can be done with the greatest of ease and safety.