Intraoperative assessment of blood flow to strangulated stomach by pulse oximetry.
A pulse oximeter was used to detect safe margins for resection of a strangulated stomach. The sensor probe was placed intraoperatively on various portions of the stomach, which herniated through a left lateral diaphragmatic defect. Failure to detect blood flow by this device in equivocally compromised tissue helped in the assessment of safe viable margins for resection.
Katz
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Department of Anesthesiology, Rambam Medical Center, Haifa, Israel.
Shoshani
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D005260:Female; D005743:Gastrectomy; D006548:Hernia, Diaphragmatic / Q000150:complications* / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007511:Ischemia / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology / Q000601:surgery; D016343:Monitoring, Intraoperative / Q000379:methods*; D010092:Oximetry; D013270:Stomach / Q000098:blood supply* / Q000601:surgery