Single Incision Laparoscopic Surgery And Its Many Benefits

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.

Thanks to innovation and technology surgical alternatives are accessible, basically procedures that lessen open surgery complications. A minimally invasive operating method called Single Incision Laparoscopic Surgery, or SILS, is available now. This procedure only uses one single entry point and this means a lot of things for a patient.

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.

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.

While there are difficulties that come along with single port surgery procedures, it is safe to say that very good results have come out of it. Despite these difficulties their practitioners are still able and willing to go through the steep learning curve and increased operating times. Hopefully, the technology to circumvent the surgical challenges will be available as innovation advances.




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