Colorectal disease : the official journal of the Association of Coloproctology of Great Britain and Ireland
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Laparoscopic colorectal surgery is often prolonged and may cause hypothermia. It is uncertain if heated and humidified carbon dioxide (CO(2)) in laparoscopic colorectal surgery is beneficial. This is a prospective case-matched study on the use of heated and humidified CO(2) in patients undergoing laparoscopic colorectal surgery. ⋯ Despite better temperature maintenance (nonsignificant), pneumoperitoneum using heated and humidified CO(2) gas did not appear to have any clinical benefits in laparoscopic colorectal surgery.