Clinical application of high frequency jet ventilation in stereotactic liver ablations - a methodological study.

ABSTRACT: Background: Computer-assisted navigation during thermal ablation of liver tumours, may help to correct needle placement and improve ablation efficacy in percutaneous, laparoscopic and open interventions. The potential advantage of using high frequency jet-ventilation technique (HFJV) during the procedure is by minimising the amplitude of respiration-related upper-abdominal organs movements. The aim of this clinical methodological trial was to establish whether HFJV would give less ventilatory induced liver movements than conventional ventilation, during stereotactic navigated ablation of liver metastases under open surgery. Methods: Five consecutive patients scheduled for elective, open liver ablation under general propofol and remifentanil anaesthesia were included in the st

SUBMITTER: Galmen K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6113879 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature