Laparoscopic surgery is an unopened technique developed for the intervention of certain organs. At first, this technique was only used for gynecological and gallbladder surgery.
4 or 5 incisions of between 5 and 10 mm should be made on the surface of the patient's abdomen for the introduction of special tubes through which the interior is accessed with a camera that is projected onto a monitor and with other specially designed instruments. In this way, the necessary changes are made in the internal organs without the need for abdominal opening.
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Laparoscopic surgery is a way of operating that minimizes risks and optimizes patient recovery, this has been demonstrated in numerous clinical studies.
Patients who are very overweight generally have limited respiratory, cardiac and renal functions, so an intervention opening the abdomen would produce a very slow recovery and a lot of pain and prostration.
Prostration can lead to thrombosis that usually generates lung embolisms in terms of hematology, and if we talk about the respiratory system, prostration causes shallow breathing that generates accumulation of secretions causing infections, pneumonia and other important respiratory complications.
Laparoscopy has managed to almost eliminate these risks and also avoid transient paralysis of the intestine, another complication generated by prostration, in such a way that, in the hands of expert surgeons, laparoscopy allows patients a faster healing of intestinal junctions, start getting up, walking and drinking fluids within 24 hours of the intervention even in the most complex techniques. In simpler techniques such as gastric band placement, this approach allows us to discharge the patient 24 hours after the intervention with almost no discomfort or pain.
Compared to traditional open surgery, patients feel less pain, have a shorter recovery period and there is less scarring.
Laparoscopic surgery is currently one of the safest approaches for the patient, as no incision is made in the abdominal wall, the risks of infections or hernias are reduced, something very common in open surgery.
It also reduces the period of convalescence and the related risks, that is, respiratory infections and risks of embolisms associated with venous thrombosis, which occur frequently in open surgeries due to the slower recovery and less movement of the patient.
All interventions related to bariatric surgery can be performed laparoscopically. Also most intestinal surgeries, surgery for Crohn's disease, ulcerative colitis, diverticulitis, cancer, rectal prolapse, severe constipation, and gynecological surgeries.
Nowadays, no surgery related to obesity should be performed through open surgery, since laparoscopic surgery has clearly demonstrated a decrease in surgical complications and a faster recovery of the patient, allowing him/her a prompt incorporation to his/her daily and work activity.
The postoperative period depends to a great extent on the technique that has been practiced. Despite this, one of the great advantages of laparoscopic surgery is the good postoperative period where pain is always less than the same surgery technique performed by an open approach.
The postoperative period is very comfortable, there is a great difference in recovery times compared to open surgery since large abdominal incisions that cause a lot of pain and prostration in the patient are avoided.
