Analysis of the hemodynamic and ventilatory effects of laparoscopic cholecystectomy.
Laparoscopic cholecystectomy uses carbon dioxide, a highly diffusable gas, for insufflation. With extended periods of insufflation, patient arterial carbon dioxide levels may be adversely altered. Patients were selected for laparoscopic cholecystectomy using the same criteria as for open cholecystectomy. Twenty patients (group 1) had normal preoperative cardiopulmonary status (American Society of Anesthesiologists class I), while 10 patients (group 2) had previously diagnosed cardiac or pulmonary disease (class II or III). Demographic, hemodynamic, arterial blood gas, and ventilatory data were collected before peritoneal insufflation and at intervals during surgery. Patients with preoperative cardiopulmonary disease demonstrated significant increases in arterial carbon dioxide levels and decreases in pH during carbon dioxide insufflation compared with patients without underlying disease. Results of concurrent noninvasive methods of assessing changes in partial arterial pressures of carbon dioxide (end-tidal carbon dioxide measured with mass spectrographic techniques) may be misleading and misinterpreted because changes in partial arterial pressures of carbon dioxide are typically much smaller than changes in arterial blood levels and, unlike arterial gas measurements, do not indicate the true level of arterial hypercarbia. During laparoscopic cholecystectomy, patients with chronic cardiopulmonary disease may require careful intraoperative arterial blood gas monitoring of absorbed carbon dioxide.
Wittgen
C M
CM
Department of Surgery, St Louis (Mo) University Hospital 63110.
Andrus
C H
CH
Fitzgerald
S D
SD
Baudendistel
L J
LJ
Dahms
T E
TE
Kaminski
D L
DL
D000368:Aged; D001794:Blood Pressure / Q000187:drug effects; D002245:Carbon Dioxide / Q000032:analysis / Q000097:blood / Q000494:pharmacology*; D002763:Cholecystectomy / Q000379:methods*; D006331:Heart Diseases / Q000503:physiopathology; D006339:Heart Rate / Q000187:drug effects; D006439:Hemodynamics / Q000187:drug effects*; D006801:Humans; D006863:Hydrogen-Ion Concentration; D010535:Laparoscopy; D008171:Lung Diseases / Q000503:physiopathology; D008875:Middle Aged; D010100:Oxygen / Q000097:blood; D010101:Oxygen Consumption / Q000187:drug effects; D011028:Pneumoperitoneum, Artificial / Q000379:methods*; D011446:Prospective Studies; D012119:Respiration / Q000187:drug effects*; D013990:Tidal Volume
D002245:Carbon Dioxide; D010100:Oxygen