Highlights:
- Laparoscopic surgery is a form of minimally invasive surgery that is both highly effective and widely adopted due to the 2-4 tiny incisions of just 0.5–1cm which are made in the patient’s abdomen.
- The benefits of laparoscopic surgery are its lack of pain during the recovery stage, minimal blood loss, and decreased impact to nearby organs, thus reducing the likelihood of complications. Patients are able to recover and return to their daily tasks more quickly following the procedure.
- However, laparoscopic surgeries must only be performed by expert surgeons who have vast experience in this field in order to ensure the risks posed to patients are minimized. Due to factors that can affect a patient’s suitability for this type of surgery, any decisions on who can undergo this form of surgery must be made by the doctor in charge of treatment.
What is a laparoscope?
Laparoscopic surgery involves making small incisions in the patient’s abdomen, through which a tiny camera and surgical device called a laparoscope is inserted to assess the state of the internal organs. Considered a form of minimally invasive surgery, this method offers various benefits, such as reduced scarring, pain, and blood loss, while also decreasing the impact on nearby organs and thus reducing the likelihood of complications arising from the procedure. Patients are able to recover and return to their daily tasks more quickly when compared to traditional open forms of surgery.
Nevertheless, laparoscopic surgery must only be performed by expert surgeons with vast experience in order to ensure that the risks posed to patients are minimized. In addition, certain factors can affect a patient’s suitability for this type of surgery, so any decisions on whether a patient can undergo this type of surgery must be made by the doctor in charge of treatment.
What types of laparoscopic surgery are currently in use?
- Laparoscopic gallbladder surgery (laparoscopic cholecystectomy)
- Laparoscopic appendectomy
- Laparoscopic hernioplasty
- Laparoscopic lysis of adhesion
- Laparoscopic gastrectomy
- Laparoscopic gynecologic Surgery
- Hysteroscopy
How is a laparoscopy performed?
These procedures involve making 2–4 incisions of 0.5–1cm in length in the patient’s abdomen, through which the laparoscope and surgical equipment is passed to perform the operation. The cameras provide surgeons with a high-resolution image of the patient’s interior on a monitor so that they can maneuver the equipment into place before performing the procedure. This enables a high degree of accuracy and safety. Once the operation is complete, the laparoscope and equipment are removed, and the incisions are stitched up.
Advantage of Laparoscopic surgery?
There are several advantages of laparoscopic surgery in comparison to the previous old fashioned surgeries methods.
- Very small scars.
- Stay for fewer days in the hospital (in traditional methods, the recovery time of a patient was 4 to 8 weeks and hospital stay was of 1 or more than a week, but in laparoscopic surgery, recovery time is 2 to 3 weeks and hospital stay is of only 2 nights).
- Less tissue cutting.
- Less pain while scar heals – lesser use of pain medications.
- Get back to normal life sooner.
- Quick healing as the scar is small.
- As exposure of internal organs gets reduced for external contaminants, hence the risk of infections reduced
Laparoscopic surgery in Bidar.
Vasu Hospital Bidar has highly skilled surgeons with vast experience in a range of surgical fields. At Vasu Hospital Bidar, our surgeons have undergone specialized training to improve their understanding of these procedures. Most importantly, there is a high level of cooperation between surgeons, anesthesiologists, and nursing professionals.
