Single Incision Laparoscopic Surgery And Its Many Benefits

By Pamela Barnes


Due to human mortality and the need to live longer, medical advances have extended their efforts to cut people open and fix problems directly at the root cause. It definitely is not a pretty sight or a circumstance. But when it is a matter of survival no one bothers to question the methods of experts.

Thanks to innovation and technology surgical alternatives are accessible, basically procedures that lessen open surgery complications. A minimally invasive operating method called Single Incision Laparoscopic Surgery, or SILS, is available now. This procedure only uses one single entry point and this means a lot of things for a patient.

A group of surgeons in New York offer this type of Laparoscopic bariatric surgery, a treatment for morbid obesity. The great thing about SILS is how it does not show obvious post operation scars. This group of surgeons can even perform the operation at a shorter recovery time. New York is after all the city where practically no one has the time of day to get sick, or in this case, stay obese.

This also means that the probability of hemorrhaging is decreased. Laparoscopic surgery uses a long fiber optic cable that lets the surgeon view the affected area by inserting the cable from a distant but easily accessible location. Compared to the earlier multi port laparoscopy method, SILS only uses the navel as the point of entry.

Minimal access surgery, or MAS, is done through a natural orifice or an incision. This implies that both the recovery time and the pain the patient feels are reduced. In consequence, the pain medication being taken decreases. This is the procedure used commonly for appendectomy, the surgical removal of the appendix, which happen often to children.

For many abdominal area surgeries this process prevents the gastrointestinal tract from being exposed to the air inside the operating room preventing many possible complications. This means that important parts of the stomach lining is unlikely to reach a level of unsafe dryness and will not be able to absorb any harmful bacteria that may cause other illnesses, since no internal organs are out in the open.

Endoscopy has a range of varying procedures ranging from using natural orifices and cutting up a port. SILS is becoming a more practiced method even with its handicaps. Maneuvering restrictions is among the most difficult to overcome along with having the surgical instruments clashing. This is because of the incision being too narrow. Advancing medical tech is the only way these surgeons have been going around these challenges.

MAS is a procedure that has surprisingly shown a lot of positive feedback from both the people in the medical field and patients. This procedure does not have a rising number of cases with complications such as incision induced hernias and bile duct injuries. Patients would also most favor having less cosmetically damaging operations.

There are challenges that go with SILS, but it is difficult to deny the uptake of the method and the good response it receives. Both patient and surgeon are more willing to submit to an increase in operating time and a period to learning the process than to risk the complications of open operation methods. Soon enough technology should be able to provide solutions to see through these handicaps.




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