Partial occlusion of left axillary artery in a patient undergoing robot-assisted radical cystectomy

Abstract

Robot-assisted surgeries are associated with steep positions which provide free operative field to surgeons; however, it becomes more challenging to the anaesthesiologists. In robot-assisted surgery, the patient is not usually accessible after docking in of robot, so monitors, circuits and tubes should be tightly secured and confirmed before handing over the patient to the surgeons. We report a patient with partial left axillary artery occlusion in a patient posted for robot-assisted radical cystectomy.

Keywords

• neurovascular compression
• operative positioning
• padding
• partial axillary artery compression
• robot-assisted radical cystectomy
• trendelenburg