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- Laparoscopic surgical techniques are being used more frequently to treat issues within the abdominal cavity, offering benefits like shorter surgery times and reduced hospital stays.
- However, these procedures can lead to complications, including instances of subcutaneous emphysema and hypercarbia, as seen in two patient cases following laparoscopic cholecystectomy.
- In the first case, hypercarbia occurred during surgery, while in the second case, it uniquely developed after the surgery was completed, marking a notable finding in medical literature.
Article Abstract
Laparoscopic surgical techniques are increasingly being applied to treat intraperitoneal abnormalities. These minimally invasive techniques potentially offer decreased operation time, decreased morbidity, and decreased length of hospitalization stays. These procedures, however are not without potential morbidity. Herein we describe two patients treated with laparoseopic cholecystectomy whose cases were complicated with subcutaneous emphysema and hyperearbia without pneumothorax. In each of these cases, carbon dioxide gas was used to induce pneumoperitoneum. In one of the cases, the hypercarbia was a late event occurring during the surgery, and in the second case, the first such description in the literature (to our knowledge), hypercarbia developed after termination of the induced pneumoperitoneum.
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