Mechanism underlying lens fogging and its countermeasure in laparoscopic surgery.

Koji TanakaTakayuki YasuiYuko MatsudaYasutomo TakahashiKotaro YamashitaTakuro SaitoKoji TanakaTomoki MakinoTsuyoshi TakahashiYukinori KurokawaMakoto YamasakiHidetoshi EguchiYuichiro DokiKiyokazu Nakajima

Published in: Minimally invasive therapy & allied technologies : MITAT : official journal of the Society for Minimally Invasive Therapy (2022)

This study showed that the heating time was more than ten seconds to prevent fogging. We found that fogging occurred when the laparoscopic tip temperature was 3.5 °C lower than the abdominal cavity temperature.

Keyphrases

laparoscopic surgery
robot assisted