Event Specialty: Bronchoscopy
Conference
Monarch Users meeting sharing best practices.
Exciting weekend as Auris hosted our 2nd Annual CORE meeting. Thank you to our customers, co-chairs and Monarch champions for their time and dedication to the future of bronchoscopy.
Physicians in photo from left to right:
Susan Garwood
Yousef Shweihat
Mordecai Dunst
John Lazar
Laszlo Vaszar
Ken Sakata
Karen Swanson
Justin Thomas
Kendal Hervert
Karl Vangundy
Prav Hegde
Daniel Nader
Ali Farrokh
Kyle Hogarth
Paul Chomiak
Gustavo Cumbo-Nacheli
Juan Escalon
Jonathan Hovda
Stephen Kovacs
Omar Ibrahim
Chris Manley
Joseph Seaman
Faisal Kahn
Rohit Kumar
Joe Cicenia
Suman Sinha
Missing from photo: Tom Gildea Sonali Sethi Douglas Minnich Ben Seides Vru Patel
Bronchoscopy:
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.