Thursday, 12 December 2019

Tips to perform safe surgery on TAH


To be read for juniors only:-: Tips for abdominal hysterectomy: -Problems & Solutions: Here I go :-Are you ready to hear??  Tip 1:-A good, detail & honest counseling couple days before the O T is scheduled, will hopefully  avoid any litigation later.:- Problems & Solutions: Tip 2- Preoperative selection of cases within your capability: - Which are the cases to be avoided by the beginners? Avoid obese, post-CS cases Post-laparotomy cases initial stages of your career. Because in such cases there are possibilities of adhesions & oozing-at operation. Additionally, one should initially avoid where endometriosis is the preoperative clinical diagnosis.

Problems & Solutions: Tip 3: Problems & Solutions: Counseling part: - Type of skin incision: Counsel preoperatively: - In difficult cases (extensive endometriosis or a big lump –Cx myoma in particular, it will be prudent for the beginners to put paramedan vertical incision thereby allowing extending up upwards. & Preoperatively-be sure abbot the movabiity of uterus and palpate POD to exclude any nodules or possible bowel adhesion or adhesions of Ovaries at back of uterus..

. Problems & Solutions:   Tip :4:- AS mentioned a good & honest counseling will make a healthy bondage between a Gynae surgeon & relatives hopefully will avoid any litigation later. To explain well ahead better on the previous day that there may be slight Risk of bowel / bladder / ureter injury should be discussed in terms of possibility and assure the relatives due care will be taken such specialist will be present nearby and arrive at OT (preferably by side gate!!) by five minutes time after a mobile call or sending a messenger from OT. Tip 6 have through Preop investigations including ECG, Echo & you you should scrutinize the reports and ask about false teeth / any past operation. Explain to her about the proposed surgery she is going to have in local language. All pros & cons and follow up should be communicated to her about present surgery,

Tip: 5:- - Always take a written consent if you remove ovaries and counsel well ahead about HRT...
 .Tip 6:-Counsel that you may change the incision to vertical & have to put interrupted silk/Nylon stitch in the skin while closing the skin & may be unable to carry out Subcuticular stitch as may be requested for by the pt., Tip-7:: Get gut prepared:-Tip 8:- Seek help of other Depts.-G I & urosrgeons: - in cases with fixed lump get gut prepared preoperatively and inform your friends at surgery dep’t and reschedule the time when he is free. Ask also urologist help as when required & also to inform a friendly but more experienced  senior Gynecological surgeon to stay  nearerby-a person who won’t disclose what went wrong (if there be any) at OT-any  mistake that U may have done will not be disclosed by that Gynae sir friend,.
Tip  : 9:--Selection of anesthetists & Asstt < Possibility of blood bank is not closed at OT hours , in rural settings ensure that generator man is readily available & not has gone outside campus to gossip at tea shop and sufficient  diesel is in his stoic,.

At OT ::Step1:-:- Identify your identity as well as patient   identity and ask her name see that it matchers with her BHT (Bed Head ticket). To enquire her what about the nature of operatiin she is going to face. Keep your hand on her forehead and reassure her. A gentle talk with due respect to her personality will build up a good rapport in the following days. If all are well then only you may offer your green signal to anesthetist & Asstt to scrub up.

At OT ::step2:- Second duty at OT is counting of ) In all laparotomy or even in CS use fix no of mops ,artery, Allis, gauze pieces, Long clams, -I insist on two mops including in Radicals & 6 each for Spencer A forces Allis, Clamps etc Always ask OT sister to have the total mops recorded on the mop by red cotton thread, though  in some centers radio opaque material is impregnated over mops.  If mops are numbered by cotton thread it is a good practice that before you open the abd tell the sly no mops in a loud voice and OT sister (Circulating Nurse) will verify such with a black board where it is written-duty of circulating nurse. Voce the exact sly no of Mop U are been served, Sometimes a frienslku anesthetist may keep record of bomber of mop dayhop no 5 & 19, like that instrument...Count   Abdominal skin incision should be liberal.

At OT step 2:-type of skin incision: - Those who are trained in “Ms Cutting incision”-MAY USE THAT as the exposure will be better. What is peculiar in Ms Cutting is in addition to excellent exposure one can work with minimal relaxation.  During years of your residency may read from Op Books about details of 5 types of abd incisions and may have practice or view someone doing what is Ms Cutting incision is. In this type of incision where only medial 1/3 rd of either rectus is cut thereby avoiding injury to Infr. Epigastric vessels but a note of caution, in ms cutting one is not allowed to dissect the sheath off the ant wall of Ms as we do in other cases. This will cause tearing of perforating branches of Infr epigastric vessels which lie just beneath the R sheath, 3)  Vertical  incision-When ?? .
 At OT step 3: After opening the abd in non-CS  cases it is fair practice if you practice from your beginning of  carrier to insulate your palm undersurface of liver, Diaph  Pylorus Liver surfaced porta GB , Omentum ,Paratactic bodes, Location of kidneys < app ,It hastate 40 seconds as U practice ,& hopefully anesthetist will excuse you,  H) If in doubt then  some fluid from POD or paracolic gutter for pap stain in suspected cases of Ov tumours I) Similarly liberal biopsy from different part of peritoneum in subfertility   cases for Genexpert or minimal -Insist on adequate relaxation  


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