Laparoscopic Surgery

What Is Laparoscopic Surgery?

Laparoscopic surgery is an advanced surgical process with significant benefits to the patients. Currently, most surgery, as far as possible, is done through this method of surgery. The other names for this surgery are minimally invasive surgery or keyhole surgery. The laparoscopic surgeries are safe and with the advancement in technology and evolution of more sophisticated techniques, the outcomes of these surgeries favourable most of the time. During the minimally invasive surgery or laparoscopic surgery, few small cuts are made. From one cut, a tube along with the camera are inserted that provides information related o the surgical site. From another cut, a special type of instrument is inserted through which the surgeons perform surgery.

What Are The Benefits Of Laparoscopic Surgery?

Laparoscopic surgery provides ample advantages to the patient as well as surgeons. These includes:

Smaller incision: Very small incisions are made at the site of surgery. The size of the incision is such that a small tube and small size instrument pass through from it.

Less pain: The patient who has undergone laparoscopic surgery have less discomfort and less pain.

Quick wound healing: As the incision is very small, the wound healing after surgery is quite fast. The risk of infection in laparoscopic surgery is quite low.

Fast recovery time: The length of time for hospital stay gets significantly reduced and the time of recovery is fast.

Less internal scars: Due to reduced bleeding and small incisions, the patient is at least at risk for developing the internal scars.

What Are The Risks Of Laparoscopic Surgery?

As this is also a surgical process, thus carries the risk of surgery. The risk further increases if the patient has underlying medical conditions. The various risk associated with laparoscopic surgery includes bleeding, infection, clotting, damage to internal structures such as blood vessels and side effects of anesthesia.

How Laparoscopic Surgery Is Different From Open Surgery?

Laparoscopic surgery is different from open surgeries on various parameters. With the open surgery, the surgeon has to create a long cut to expose the site of surgery which is reduced to 3-4 small incisions with laparoscopic surgeries. Due to small incision, the wound healing and rate of recovery is fast as compared to open surgery. Small body tissue is exposed to the external environment, thus having less chance of infection as compared to open surgery.

Can Laparoscopic Surgery May Be Done For Cancer?

Laparoscopic surgery is also done to remove the tumor. The surgical outcomes of laparoscopic surgery for cancer are similar to open surgeries.