Minimally Invasive Surgery

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What is Surgery?
Surgery is a specialty of medicine. It treats diseases and disorders by cutting, removing or changing the body with an operative procedure opens the body for therapy. In other words, it is the branch of medicine that employs operations in the treatment of disease or injury. Surgery can involve cutting, abrading, suturing, or otherwise physically changing body tissues and organs.

Minimally Invasive Surgery
Minimally invasive surgery is a type of surgery uses minimal incisions to reduce trauma to the body. This type of surgery is usually performed using thin-needles and an endoscope to visually guide the surgery. Nowadays, Minimally Invasive Surgery is becoming more popular in hospitals.

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J Barry McKernan. After making a 10 mm incision, he inserted a laparoscopy (small camera) into patient's abdomen to remove a gallbladder. The gallbladder is a small, pear-shaped, muscular, hollow organ responsible for storing bile, and for creating insulin in the body. Supplement. The gallbladder is one of the organs of the digestive system of animals. After the surgical procedure, the patient that Dr McKernan operated on recovered more quickly than usual. It only took a few weeks to recover rather than months. This was the first laparoscopic cholecystectomy performed in the U.S.A., and the beginning of minimally invasive surgery. This opened up a new new door, changing how people think of surgery.

Instruments Used in Minimally Invasive Surgery

The question that people may have is that: Is minimally invasive surgery really better than receiving traditional surgery (requires larger incisions to expose the area that needs to be …show more content…

In minimally invasive cardiac surgery, surgeons do not cut through the breast bone, which is the, sternum. Instead, they operate between the ribs; therefore, there is less pain for the patient, a quicker recovery, shorter stay in the hospital, and less noticeable scars. Surgeons get a better view of some parts of your heart than in open heart

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