In order to make our body suffer less damage during the operation, minimally invasive surgery has been introduced. In open surgery, the body has to go through severe damage and more loss of blood. However, in minimally invasive the surgeon utilizes a variety of techniques during the surgery that reduce the amount of damage and blood loss body has to undergo. It also propels fast recovery as compared to open surgery.
What is a laparoscopic surgery?
Dr Anshuman Agarwal, an eminent and experienced urologist in Delhi, explains that minimally invasive laparoscopy surgery is also termed as minimally invasive surgery. It elaborates the performance of a surgical procedure with the help of video camera and other thin instruments, such as small tubes and other instrument that are utilized during the surgery to perform it efficiently.
During the laparoscopic surgery, small incisions of up to half inch are made by the doctor and plastic tubes called ports are placed through these incisions. The ports are then used to introduced camera and the instruments that allow the surgeon to access the inside of the patient. With the help of the camera, the images of the organ inside the patient's abdomen are transmitted on the computer screed that massively help the surgeon to perform the operation with greater precision and more efficiently. Under this situation, the surgeon does not see the inside part of the body of the patient, but the laparoscope becomes the eye of the surgeon during the laparoscopic surgery. They perform the whole operation watching the live images transmitted to the screen and accomplished it with greater precision.
How laparoscopic surgery proves beneficial for the patient?
It is regardless to say that laparoscopic surgery based on minimally invasive surgery, has numerous advantage as compared to open surgery, such as:
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It increases the accuracy of the surgery
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Minimal and small incisions are required
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It introduces less post operative discomfort and pain
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Require shorter stays in the hospital
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It induces quicker recovery
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The patient can return to its normal activities in a short period of time
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It leaves much smaller scars
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The amount of blood loss is also very low
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There is higher a chance of less scarring when the surgery is performed as compared to open surgery
Robotic assisted surgery
The latest introduction in the medical surgery is the Da Vinci surgical system that is a computer assisted robotic system that has transformed the way minimally invasive laparoscopy surgery is performed. The whole concept of performing surgery with the help of robotic assisted console is the achieve higher accuracy and performance during the surgery.
The surgery that is performed using the robotic assisted machine has no direct mechanical connection between the surgeon and the patient. The surgeon stays remote from patient, working from the distance of a few feet from the operating table while seated at a computer console, having a three-dimensional view of the operating place. The surgeon controls everything with the help of the two mechanical arms of the robot.