Needle in a haystack: Intraoperative breakage of pediatric minimal access surgery instruments

Needle in a haystack: Intraoperative breakage of pediatric minimal access surgery instruments

The search for tiny bits of broken pediatric minimal access surgery (MAS) instruments in an operative field is akin to the search for a needle in a haystack. With the extension of MAS to the pediatric age group, instruments are becoming smaller and equitably more prone to breakage. When breakages oc...

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Main Authors: S V Parelkar, B V Sanghvi, S R Shetty, H Athawale, S N Oak
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications 2014-01-01
Series:Journal of Postgraduate Medicine
Subjects:
Broken
eyeless needle
grasper blade
MAS
pediatric
retrieval RSI
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