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Trauma Laparoscopy and Primary Repair of Small Bowel Injury
Presentation:
🔵Presented 6 hours following football tackle with knee to abdomen
🔵Resulted in blunt trauma to anterior abdominal wall
🔵On examination
➡️tender abdomen with tachycardia but normotensive and HB stable
🔵CT in ED
➡️Small volume intraperitoneal free air anterior to liver
➡️Gas locules around transverse colon at the splenic flexure
Approach:
🔴Low threshold for laparoscopy +/- proceed
🔴Complete examination of small bowel on both anti mesenteric and mesenteric sides
🔴Two areas of injury near DJ flexure - one full thickness and one seromuscular
➡️Perforation immediately beyond DJ flexure
🔴Free intraperitoneal bile an irritant
🔴Primary repair with 2/0 vicryl
➡️If concern regarding ischaemic edges, consider freshening
🔴Thorough peritoneal lavage
🔴Feeding jejunostomy not indicated
➡️Oral intake resumed 24 hours post-op
🔴Advanced lap experience critical
🔴Pt. discharged POD3 with no readmissions to hospital
DX: Obstructing Blood Clot at JJ Anastomosis
🔴Important to consider as DDx for patients who develop acute SBO post LRYGB
🔴High risk of gastric remnant blowout & mortality
➡️Prompt diagnosis and intervention critical
🔴Careful examination of staple line for bleeding prior to enterotomy closure during index LRYGB
See the full case in @JournalObesity at:
https://t.co/aM12ow4H1J
Laparoscopic Transgastric Necrosectomy with Cholecystectomy for Retrogastric Walled-off Necrosis (WON)
🔴Benign MDT approach
➡️"One size does not fit all"
🔴Dominant WON/solid necrosis
➡️Pseudocyst/liquid collection ideal for EUS
🔴Adv of MIS > EUS
➡️Single stage clearance of necrosis
➡️Better visualisation
➡️Sturdy instruments for necrosectomy
➡️Concomitant cholecystectomy if gallstone aetiology
🔴IOUS an important adjunct and critical in delineating anatomical configuration of WON
🔵Prospective study by @NZyromski et al
➡️Largest series of published transgastric necrosectomy
➡️Surgical approach offers single stage clearance of WON
➡️EUS requires multiple sessions with recurrent hits of sepsis in-between
➡️Link to paper: https://t.co/Szuw8DIsWu
See our ongoing collaboration with @BehindTheKnife on MIS management of complicated SAP:
https://t.co/Ihu684TBjg
#HPB #Surgery #Pancreatitis
When an ER patient says “Sorry to bother you guys I’m sure it’s probably nothing”, something is really fucking wrong until proven otherwise. Trust me on this one.
Emergency Robotic Chole and CBD Exploration in a Pregnant Patient
Presentation:
🔵23 year old 20/52 pregnant presents with obstructive jaundice
➡️Uterus at the level of umbilicus
🔵MRCP demonstrated GB and CBD stones
➡️A single 8mm stone impacted in the distal CBD
➡️CBD >8mm in diameter.
🔵Benign MDT decision that lap chole and CBDE was the best approach to manage her condition
🔵Proceeded to Robotic Assisted Chole and CBDE
Surgical Approach:
🔴4 robotic arms and 1 assistant port
🔴Careful open cut down just below umbilicus taking care to access the peritoneal cavity taking particular attention to avoid injury to the uterus
🔴Early positioning of patient in reverse trendelenburg with right side tilt to take pressure off IVC
🔴Cystic artery dissected and ligated
🔴Choledocotomy
➡️Clear bile indicative of obstructed CBD
➡️Open jaw technique
➡️Extension of choledochotomy over the captured stone in the basket pulled to the entry of the choledochotomy
🔴Choledochoscope through cystic duct and irrigated to flush out smaller stones via choledochotomy
🔴Wide cystic duct dissected
🔴Proximal extent of the duct suture ligated
🔴Cystic duct divided to release cystic duct stones
🔴Stones flushed through the cystic duct during transcystic choledochoscopy
🔴Cystic duct sutured closed with 2/0 Vicryl.
Benefits of Robotic Platform:
🔴Low pressure pneumoperitoneum at 8mmHg feasible with precision wristed robotic instruments and magnified 3D enhanced vision
🔴Improved ergonomics for closure of choledochotomy
@SAGES_Updates Guidelines for Laparoscopy during Pregnancy:
https://t.co/nuz984O2IT
Robotic Cholecystectomy and Transductal CBD Exploration
Patient Presentation:
🔵38-year-old female
🔵RUQ pain with jaundice
🔵MRCP performed (below)
➡️Stone at cystic duct/CBD junction
➡️Multiple CBD stones
🔵Decision to perform single stage robotic intervention
Surgical Approach:
🔴IOUS useful adjunct due to dynamic process of gallstone disease
🔴ICG helpful to delineate critical structures
🔴Cystic duct too wide to apply locking clips so suture closure of cystic duct stump undertaken
🔴Pt discharged 48 hours post-op
Here's a video I made breaking down this impressive case of a man in his 50's who presented to the ER with cough and shortness of breath for 1 week
#FOAMed