TY - JOUR
T1 - Laparoscopic hypothermia
T2 - Heat loss from insufflation gas flow
AU - Huntington, Thomas R.
AU - LeMaster, Clifford B.
PY - 1997
Y1 - 1997
N2 - To determine the effects of laparoscopic gas flow on intraoperative hypothermia, we measured heat loss from intra-abdominally heating cold insufflation gas and intra-abdominal evaporative heat losses. Heat loss from heating insufflated CO2 was 304 L/Cal; evaporative loss was 109 L/Cal. Even in the worst hypothetical case of complete water saturation of dry insufflated gas, total heat loss would total 81 L/Cal, a relatively minor contribution to surgical hypothermia.
AB - To determine the effects of laparoscopic gas flow on intraoperative hypothermia, we measured heat loss from intra-abdominally heating cold insufflation gas and intra-abdominal evaporative heat losses. Heat loss from heating insufflated CO2 was 304 L/Cal; evaporative loss was 109 L/Cal. Even in the worst hypothetical case of complete water saturation of dry insufflated gas, total heat loss would total 81 L/Cal, a relatively minor contribution to surgical hypothermia.
KW - Humidity
KW - Hypothermia
KW - Insufflation gas flow-CO2
KW - Laparoscopy
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/0030934307
U2 - 10.1097/00019509-199704000-00018
DO - 10.1097/00019509-199704000-00018
M3 - Article
C2 - 9109248
AN - SCOPUS:0030934307
SN - 1051-7200
VL - 7
SP - 153
EP - 155
JO - Surgical Laparoscopy, Endoscopy and Percutaneous Techniques
JF - Surgical Laparoscopy, Endoscopy and Percutaneous Techniques
IS - 2
ER -