Minimally Invasive Surgery

Session Chair: Birgitta Dresp-Langley,Universite de Strasbourg, France

Your surgeon can employ minimally invasive surgery techniques to reduce the size and number of cuts, or incisions, that they need to make. It is generally thought to be safer than open surgery. You'll usually recover faster, spend less time in the hospital, and be more at ease as you recover. Your surgeon makes one major cut to see the part of your body they're operating on in traditional open surgery. Your surgeon will use small tools, cameras, and lights that fit through multiple tiny wounds in your skin during minimally invasive surgery. Your surgeon will be able to perform surgery without having to open up a lot of skin and muscle. A smaller incision (usually half the length of a regular incision) or a method that does not entail cutting tendons or dividing muscles is referred to as minimally invasive surgery (MIS). The commercial sector has made significant contributions to minimally invasive surgery. Even though it appeared apparent that a little incision was preferable to a large incision, academic surgery was sluggish to adopt laparoscopy at first. Academic surgeons are now expected to use bench-top and clinical outcome measurements to demonstrate the benefits of laparoscopy.