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Anesthetic management of transoral natural orifice transluminal endoscopic surgery: two cases report
Ji Hyeon Lee1, Chan Jong Chung1, Seung Cheo Lee1
1Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Dong-A University College of Medicine, Busan, Korea.
Abstract:
Natural orifice transluminal endoscopic surgery (NOTES) is an evolving field of minimally invasive surgery. NOTES reaches the target organ by inserting the endoscope through a natural orifice (e.g. mouth, anus, urethra, vagina) and offers advantages of less postoperative pain and lower complication rate. Since its first description in 2004, NOTES has progressed from use on animal models to humans. We experienced anesthetic care of two patients who underwent transoral NOTES under general anesthesia.
