Hemostasis of the liver, spleen, and bone achieved by electrocautery greased with lidocaine gel.
Despite advances in surgical techniques, achieving hemostasis of the liver, spleen, and bone during major surgery, especially after trauma, is still difficult. I describe a new procedure my colleagues and I devised to achieve parenchymatous hemostasis using electrocautery greased with lidocaine gel. After achieving good results in experimental studies and obtaining approval from our ethics committee, we used electrocautery greased with lidocaine gel for hemostasis in the following 36 procedures: multisegmental hepatectomy to remove hepatic tumors (n = 6); partial hepatectomy to allow hepatojejunostomy for intrahepatic biliary obstruction (n = 10); laparoscopic liver biopsy (n = 4); subtotal splenectomy (n = 8; for portal hypertension in 5 patients, splenic ischemia in 2, and Gaucher's disease in 1); laparoscopic splenic biopsy (n = 1); and bone resection (n = 7; as pelvic-femoral resection in 6 patients and to remove a rectal tumor invading the coccyx in 1). This procedure was easy to perform and achieved complete hemostasis of the minor blood vessels in all patients. No postoperative bleeding occurred and the follow-up course was satisfactory. Electrocautery greased with lidocaine gel is an inexpensive, readily available, and efficient method to achieve hemostasis of minor vessels in hepatic, splenic, and bone operations.
Department of Surgery of the Medical School, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil.
Andy
A
Petroianu
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001842:Bone and Bones / Q000601:surgery*; D004564:Electrocoagulation / Q000379:methods*; D005260:Female; D005782:Gels; D006489:Hemostatic Techniques; D006801:Humans; D008012:Lidocaine / Q000008:administration & dosage*; D008099:Liver / Q000601:surgery*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D013154:Spleen / Q000601:surgery*
D005782:Gels; D008012:Lidocaine
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