Friday, September 30, 2016

Why Single Incision Laparoscopic Surgery Is Beneficial

By Pamela Barnes


The thought of going through surgery is dreadful regardless if one has experienced it or not. Being cut open sounds like something no one puts in their bucket list. But due to the deteriorating nature of everything that lives, circumstances dictate people to go to the hospital to get sliced with a scalpel for a chance of surviving.

There are many things the medical world can thank modern technology for. For many who might have to go through surgery, the 21st century has given us Single Incision Laparoscopic Surgery, most commonly known as SILS. This is a relatively new surgical procedure that is minimally invasive and operates a patient through a single entry point.

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.

With SILS, the patient feels less post operation pain, since the area operated on is not cut wide open. This is due to SILS being a procedure where a single incision is made in the belly button to make way for the fiber optic cable to get through. This cable is connected to a screen that serves as the eyes of the surgeon during the procedure.

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.

Abdominal issues that need internal intervention, like appendectomy and cholecystectomy, the removal of the appendix and gall bladder, respectively, are the most common application for SILS. There is less chances for the gastrointestinal tract to be out in the open and vulnerable to harmful bacteria that can cause complications of the stomach lining. These are the most likely causes of problems during open surgery procedures in the abdomen.

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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