Saturday, August 25, 2018

SINGLE INCISION SURGERY: MERITS AND DEMERITS:

Minimally invasive surgical procedures help the individual suffering from the wide range of challenging, painful, and life-limiting colorectal diseases. Many victims of the colorectal diseases have undergone many major surgical procedures and found to have difficult recovery time. Now this recent advancement single incision surgery can preserve the continence, bring faster recovery and the better cosmetic results such as scar less surgery.
How minimally invasive approaches proves to be effective in case of the colorectal surgery?
The recent advancements are single incision laparoscopic surgery and transanal minimally invasive surgery. By this technique the foot-long incision has reduced to the single one-inch incision. This is often carried out through the belly button leaving virtually no scars.
In simple way we can define single incision surgery as shorter hospital stay, better standard of living and less trauma to the body.
How does this procedure develop?
The single large incision was replaced literally with the 3-4 small incision this is how the minimally invasive surgical procedures developed and nowadays they are even more advanced with the robotics-assisted surgeries.
What is the recovery time?
With the help of the single incision surgery the patient with the inflammatory bowel diseases such as ulcerative colitis and crohn’s diseases may have easier elimination and the better remission.
This kind of surgical procedures also proves to be good for the patients who are not healthy during the time of the surgical procedures such as cardiac, respiratory or other conditions. Other advancement in the field of the surgery includes percutaneous decompression, laser discectomy, and laminectomy.

Minimally invasive surgery also has some negative effects and it does not proves to be effective for all patients. Both the traditional and the minimally invasive surgical procedures have their own merits and demerits. The selection of mode of surgery depends on the prior medical history.

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