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Event Specialty: Bronchoscopy
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Team Auris will participate in the American Lung Association’s Fight for Air Climb in San Francisco on June 1, 2019. This is Team Auris’ second year participating in the event, and together they raised over $10,000 for the American Lung Association. Auris’ work naturally aligns with the American Lung Association’s mission, as the first application of our Monarch Platform helps physicians diagnose hard-to-reach nodules in the lungs, enabling earlier diagnosis and treatment of lung disease. As such, Auris is proud to participate in an event that is also helping to further lung cancer research.
The American Lung Association hosts several Fight for Air Climb events across the United States each year, with the goal of raising money to help fund lung health research, patient education, and public policy efforts to help save more lives. The event is a stair climb held in prominent skyscrapers across the country. To raise money, teams or individuals get donations from friends, family, businesses, etc., then come together to make the climb on the day of the event.
This year’s San Francisco Fight for Air Climb will be held at the 555 California building. Team Auris will climb 52 flights of stairs, from the bottom floor all the way to the top of the building. In total, the event hopes to raise $300,000 for the American Lung Association.
Learn more about the Fight for Air ClimbBronchoscopy:
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.