Carbon Dioxide Gas Heating Inside Laparoscopic Insufflators Has No Effect

摘要

Background and Objectives:Within recent years, the insufflation technique for laparoscopy has become more important with high flow insufflators (≥30 L/min) and high gas turn over (≥800 L/procedure). Increased amounts of carbon dioxide (CO2) gas used can lead to laparoscopic hypothermia. We studied the insufflator with versus insufflators without internal gas heating (inside insufflator) as a sufficient method of hypothermia prevention at different flow rates.