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Monitoring of irrigating fluid absorption during transurethral prostatectomy
Author(s) -
HULTÉN J.,
SARMA V. J.,
HJERTBERG H.,
PALMQUIST B.
Publication year - 1991
Publication title -
anaesthesia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.839
H-Index - 117
eISSN - 1365-2044
pISSN - 0003-2409
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2044.1991.tb09541.x
Subject(s) - medicine , prostatectomy , absorption (acoustics) , anesthesia , ethanol , urology , prostate , optics , chemistry , physics , organic chemistry , cancer
Summary A simple, reliable method to detect absorption of irrigating fluid during transurethral prostatectomy is to tag irrigating fluids with 1% ethanol and monitor expired breath ethanol concentrations. This method correlated well (n = 0.79) with other existing methods of absorption monitoring in 20 anaesthetised patients. Ethanol (1%) tagging does not alter the optical quality of the irrigating fluid and is harmless to the patient. The technique is non‐invasive, repeatable, cheap and gives instant results. It can be used in anaesthetised or awake patients and can detect absorption of as little as 100–150 ml in any 10‐minute period.