Minimally invasive surgery

1. Minimally Invasive Surgery Methods and Treatment in India.

2. What does minimally invasive surgery mean? Minimally invasive surgery allows your surgeon to use techniques that limits the size and number of cuts or incisions that they need to make. It’s typically considered safer than open surgery. You usually recover more at a fast rate, spend less time in the hospital, and feel more comfortable while you heal. In traditional open surgery, your surgeon makes one large cut to see the part of your body that they are operating on. In minimally invasive surgery, your surgeon uses small tools, cameras, and lights that fit through several tiny cuts in your skin. It allows your surgeon to perform surgery without opening a lot of skin and muscle.

3. Types of minimally invasive surgery

4. Procedure of Minimally Invasive Surgery • Someone undergoing minimally invasive surgery will get anesthesia to "sleep" through the procedure. Then the surgeon inserts the endoscope. Surgeons can put an endoscope into the body through: • the body's natural openings (like the nostrils or the mouth) • tiny cuts in the body • Images from the endoscope are displayed on the monitors in the operating room so that the surgeons can get a clear and magnified view of the surgical area. • In some minimally invasive procedures, special surgical tools or instruments are inserted through other small incisions. The surgeon uses these to explore, remove or repair the problems inside the body. • There are many different types of endoscopes. • Few of them has tiny surgical tools at the end. • Few are flexible • Others are stiff • The endoscope type is chosen based on type of surgery. The endoscope might have a different nomenclature. For example: • Colonoscope— for the procedures done inside the colon (such as a colonoscopy) • Laparoscope— for the surgeries inside the belly (laparoscopic surgery) • Thoracoscope— for the procedures inside the chest (thoracoscopic surgery) • At times during minimally invasive surgery, the surgeon might require to switch to the traditional surgery after looking inside the body. This can happen if the problem is different from what the surgeon has expected.

5. Benefits of minimally invasive surgery

6. Conditions treated using minimally invasive surgery • Adrenalectomy to remove one or both adrenal glands • Anti-reflux surgery, occasionallycalled hiatal hernia repair, to relieve gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) • IVF surgery • Colectomy to remove parts of the diseased colon • Colon and rectal surgery • Ear, nose and throat surgery • Endovascular surgeryto treat or repair an aneurysm • Gallbladder surgery (cholecystectomy) to remove gallstones that cause pain • Gastroenterologic surgery, including for gastric bypass • Gynecologic surgery • Heart surgery • Kidney transplant • Nephrectomy (kidney removal) • Neurosurgery Orthopedic surgery • Splenectomy to remove the spleen • Thoracic surgery, such as video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) • Urologic surgery

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