Insufflation Tubing
CO2 Tubing · Insufflator Tubing · Insufflation Tubing and Filter Set · Insufflation Filter Set
A long, clear, sterile tube, about 10 feet, with a round in-line filter near the machine end and a Luer or push-on fitting at the patient end. Some sets color-code the machine end.
On the table
What it does, the lengths it comes in and what experienced techs know about it.
What it’s for
Carries carbon dioxideKAR-bun dy-OK-sideA gas made by the body's cells as waste, carried in the blood to the lungs and breathed out.Full entry from the insufflationin-suh-FLAY-shunBlowing a gas into a body cavity, such as carbon dioxide into the abdomen during laparoscopic surgery.Full entry to the Veress needle or trocarTROH-karA sharp or bladed instrument inside a tube (cannula), used to pierce a body wall and leave the tube in place as a port.Full entry to inflate and keep up the pneumoperitoneum in laparoscopiclap-uh-roh-SKOP-ikDone through a few small cuts in the abdomen with a thin camera and long instruments, instead of one large opening.lapar/o abdomen-scopic viewingFull entry and robotic cases. The scrub opens it onto the field, connects the patient end to the needle or port, and hands the machine end off the field to the circulator, who connects it to the insufflator.
Lengths and variants
Different machine-end fittings match different insufflators (rotating Luer lock, push-on, quick-connect and others).
What experienced techs know
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- After the case
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3 sources
- Rothrock JC. Alexander's Care of the Patient in Surgery. 17th ed. Chapter 8 (Surgical Modalities), p. 218-219
- Fuller JK. Surgical Technology: Principles and Practice. 8th ed. Chapter 20 (Minimally Invasive Surgery), p. 443
- alleset.com
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