Ultrasound Guidance in Reproductive Surgery

Publication date: Available online 30 May 2019Source: Best Practice & Research Clinical Obstetrics & GynaecologyAuthor(s): Kanna Jayaprakasan, Kamal OjhaAbstractUltrasound plays a key role in diagnosis and guidance in reproductive medicine and surgery. In the field of Reproductive surgery, some of the interventions, especially intrauterine procedures, are regularly carried out without imaging guidance but instead performed based on clinical skills and experience alone. Operative real time-US provides concurrent visualisation of the structures, contents and planes and operating instruments and therefore, has the potential to improve efficacy and safety of the operative interventions. Ultrasound should be used in our operating theatres more often to guide various intrauterine procedures in order to reduce the intra-operative risks and complications including uterine perforations and visceral injury. The use of ultrasound necessitates an additional assistant experienced in ultrasound in the theatre, but regular use of ultrasound improves the training opportunities of the trainees and clinicians.
Source: Best Practice and Research Clinical Obstetrics and Gynaecology - Category: OBGYN Source Type: research