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Extracorporeal shockwave lithotripsy is the meaning of ESWL in the medical context. E= Extracorporeal S= Shock W= Wave L= Lithotripsy. ESWL. It is a non-invasive procedure used to send shock waves through the body to disintegrate kidney stones.
ESWL can be performed either under general anesthesia or under intravenous sedation. Once the patient is anesthetized, the lithotripter machine is positioned in contact with the patientâs flank on the side of the stone. A series of up to 2,000 shock waves are delivered to fragment the stone. ESWL is performed under Xray guidance to accurately target the stone in efforts to maximize stone fragmentation while minimizing adjacent organ injury.