Help! Complications in the operating room during abdominal surgery and how to handle them
• Do you worry about finding a dropped ovarian pedicle and/or the patient bleeding out whilst you try?
• Are you anxious about performing an exploratory laparotomy and not knowing what to do if you find something you were not expecting and are unsure how to deal with it surgically?
• Are there some organs in the abdomen you feel a lot more familiar operating on than others?
• Are you concerned about damaging something important in the abdomen?
• Do you worry about contaminating and introducing infection into the abdomen when operating in the abdominal cavity?
If you have answered yes to any of the above questions and would like to learn how to avoid and deal with intra-operative complications when performing abdominal surgery then this lecture is for you!