Monitoring for Laparoscopic Surgery

Laparoscopy has come to be used for a large variety of surgical procedures. This has necessarily led to its use in patients who have a variety of interrelated diseases. While the postoperative course tends to be more benign than in traditional "open" procedures, the intraoperative period may be even more stressful to the patient from a physiological perspective. Use of sophisticated monitoring techniques in selected patients can help yield the optimal postoperative outcome.