Minimally Invasive Surgery

Minimally Invasive Surgery

Minimally Invasive Surgery is a new kind of surgery that serves the same purpose as open surgery but less invasive. A minimally invaseive surgery involves a fiber optic cables, small endoscopic camera and several long, thin, rigid instruments handled via tubes through small artificial incisions or natural body openings. The surgeon has to visually indetify the internal features and acting surgically on them with the transmitted images of the interior of the body on the external video monitor.
Minimally invasive surgery is a technique practised by physicians and surgeons to remove growths or masses with fast recovery time and minimal scarring. Typically, most surgeons would cut along 3/4 to the full length of the mass to either remove it or access it in a normal procedure. But with minimally invasive surgery, the incision is only about 1/10 of the size of underlying mass and the mass is dissected carefully through this small incision. The smaller scar from the smaller incision results in the faster recovery time for the patient.

Minimally Invasive Surgery

Compared to an equivalent invasive procedure, minimally invasive surgery has less operative trauma. Even though the operation might take longer, the hospital stays are shorter. It also causes less pain and scarring, reducing the incidence of post- surgical complications. The advantages of minimally invasive surgery result in shorter hospital stays, faster recovery, less pain, less train of the organism, shorter illness time thus economic gain and small injuries due to aesthetic reasons.
On the other hand, the surgery creates difficulty for the surgeon in terms of restricted vision and mobility, no tactile perception, difficult hand-eye coordination and difficult handling of the instruments. The risks and complications of minimally invasive surgery are bleeding, infection, internal organ injury, blood vessel injury, vein or lung blood clotting, breathing problems, anestheisa or medication reactions, in worst case, death but bear in mind these risks are also present in open, more invasive surgery.

Minimally Invasive Surgery

There are many medical procedures termed as minimally invasive surgery such as air-pressure injection, hypodermic injection, endoscopy, subdermal implants, laparoscopic surgery, percutaneous surgery, cryosurgery, arthroscopic surgery, keyhole surgery, microsurgery,   coronary catheterization, endovascular surgery (such as angioplasty), brain electrodes, permanent spinal and stereotactic surgery, Positron emission tomography, radioactivity-based medical imaging methods, such as gamma camera, The Nuss Procedure  and SPECT (single photon emission tomography). Some procedures such as gall bladder removal are very effective through minimally invasive surgery.
Surgeons are constantly exploring ways to move from open surgery to minimally invasive surgery, replacing large incisions with small incisions through which the surgeon works. This results in important benefits for the patients such as removing or damaging less tissue, reducing scarring and the subsequent risk of infection.