Why Single Incision Laparoscopic Surgery Is Beneficial

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.

With the many years that the surgical arts have been practiced, medical professionals are bound to come up with different types of procedures. Even now they are still constantly innovating to see which process would benefit humans the most. A relatively current endoscopy procedure is Single Incision Laparoscopic Surgery. SILS is the use of only one entry point to reduce the likelihood of complications that happen during open operations.

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.

While there are many ways laparoscopy can be done, Minimal access surgery, more popularly known as MAS, is when surgeons use only a single port for where the procedure is done. This means that the pain the patient feels and the time it takes for them to recover is lessened. As a result, the amount of pain medicine that the patient takes is not as much as he would if going through a normal open surgery.

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.

There are many good reviews about MAS from both medically operating professionals and patients. The number of successful cases are increasing especially with the premise of lesser cosmetic damage without a higher risk of complications when compared to open operation methods. There is still the same probability of a patient getting internal injuries with an open surgery and a MAS.

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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