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Current studies have shown that the use of surgical humidification during open abdominal surgery (laparotomy) have warmer core body temperatures and reduced risk of operative hypothermia. [ 21 ] [ 22 ] As with any operation, maintaining patient normothermia is a critical process to prevent surgical site infections, additional respiratory ...
Pneumoperitoneum is pneumatosis (abnormal presence of air or other gas) in the peritoneal cavity, a potential space within the abdominal cavity.The most common cause is a perforated abdominal organ, generally from a perforated peptic ulcer, although any part of the bowel may perforate from a benign ulcer, tumor or abdominal trauma.
Intraoperative radiation therapy (IORT) is radiation therapy that is administered during surgery directly in the operating room (hence intraoperative). Usually therapeutic levels of radiation are delivered to the tumor bed while the area is exposed during surgery .
Air is able to travel to the soft tissues of the neck from the mediastinum and the retroperitoneum (the space behind the abdominal cavity) because these areas are connected by fascial planes. [4] From the punctured lungs or airways, the air travels up the perivascular sheaths and into the mediastinum, from which it can enter the subcutaneous ...
Laparoscopy (from Ancient Greek λαπάρα (lapára) 'flank, side' and σκοπέω (skopéō) 'to see') is an operation performed in the abdomen or pelvis using small incisions (usually 0.5–1.5 cm) with the aid of a camera.
Isabella Strahan is living life to the fullest over a year after being diagnosed and treated for a malignant brain tumor.. The model, 20, shared photos of herself and her sister Sophia from The ...
Tissue-air ratio is defined as the ratio of the dose to water at a given depth to the dose in air measured with a buildup cap: = (,) (,) where D(f,z) is the dose at a given depth z and distance focus-detector f; and D(f,0) is the dose in air (z=0).
The therapeutic effect of all three types is based on local deposition of radiation dose by high-energy beta particles. All three types of microsphere are permanent implants and stay in the tissue even after radioactivity has decayed. 90 Y, a pure beta emitter, has half-life 2.6 days, or 64.1 hours.