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Sung Ho Moon1, Daeseok Oh1, Myoung Jin Ko1
1From the Department of Anesthesia & Pain Medicine, Inje University Haeundae Paik Hospital, Busan, Republic of Korea.
Abstract:
We present a 54-year-old man who developed an unexpected thenar space compartment syndrome after robotic laparoscopic surgery, which was caused when the radial arterial pressure tubing was pulled too tightly around the base of the thumb while changing the surgical position. A conventional method of securing the tubing by looping it around the thumb appeared to be the primary cause. This complication went unnoticed during the surgery because the arm was tucked out of sight; there were no remarkable findings on monitoring. This case highlights the risks of looping tubing around the thumb, especially if continual inspection is not possible.
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