Event Specialty: Bronchoscopy
Conference
The AATS 101st Annual Meeting will once again be the place where the cardiothoracic community comes together to discuss the latest scientific innovations.
In 2021, AATS will host a virtual meeting. With more than 800 speakers and 75 simultaneous innovative breakout sessions, e-posters, and live panel discussions, participants will have the opportunity to customize their educational experience like never before. Using the latest technology, presentations will be paired up with a live panel discussion throughout the three days.
You can learn about robotic-assisted bronchoscopy with MONARCH at AATS. Visit our booth.
Learn more about AATS 101st Annual MeetingBronchoscopy:
Complications from bronchoscopy are rare and most often minor, but if they occur, may include breathing difficulty, vocal cord spasm, hoarseness, slight fever, vomiting, dizziness, bronchial spasm, infection, low blood oxygen, bleeding from biopsied site, or an allergic reaction to medications. Only rarely do patients experience other more serious complications (for example, collapsed lung, respiratory failure, heart attack and/or cardiac arrhythmia).
Urology:
Adverse effects from both Mini-PCNL and Ureteroscopy include pain, urinary tract infection, fever, hematuria (presence of blood in urine), exposure to low levels of radiation, retained or residual stones.
Adverse effects from ureteroscopy may include pain, perforation or injury to the ureter, resulting in extravasation of fluid and urine (urinoma), stricture of the ureter with risk of subsequent obstruction (hydronephrosis needing further repair), rare avulsion of the ureter, urinary blood clots, residual stones.
PCNL access may result in minor and major adverse effects. Minor effects include fever and nephrostomy leak. Major adverse effects may include injuries to pleura, liver, spleen, large vessels with related bleeding, gallbladder, duodenum, jejunum, colon with related cutaneous fistula, fever, pain, ileus, elevated counts.
Major adverse effects related to stone removal may include infection and urosepsis, intravascular fluid overload, extravasation of fluid, and post percutaneous nephrolithotomy bleeding.