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. 2017 Jun 27;50(2):137–143. doi: 10.1016/S0377-1237(17)31019-5

TABLE 2.

Complications of laparosoopy

  • Hollow viscus perforation

  • Solid viscus injury

  • Blood vessel injury – haemorrhage

  • Biliary leakage

  • Subcutaneous emphysema. pneurnopthorax, pneumomediastinum

  • Gas embolism

  • Cardiorespiratory embarresment due to elevation of diaphragm, compression of inferior vena cava.

  • Flash burn during electrocoagulation, photography and laser burns

  • Explosion with diathermy

  • CO2 absorptions with rise in the arterial CO2

  • Cardiac arrhythmias and cardiac; arrest

  • Danger of transmission of diseases like serum hepatitis and AIDS