Surgery has long been an integral component of healthcare, from emergency procedures that save lives to elective procedures designed to enhance quality of life. Thanks to advances in surgical techniques, patients now benefit from shorter hospital stays and recovery periods.
Minimally Invasive Surgery (MIS) has revolutionized surgery. Learn more about its advantages over open surgery here.
Lower Risk of Complications
Surgery has come a long way since ancient procedures; with advances in anesthesia, antiseptic techniques and other technological innovations surgeons are now capable of safely operating on patients with more complex conditions.
Comparative to open surgeries that necessitate large incisions, minimally invasive surgery is much less destructive to surrounding muscles and tissue due to using smaller surface incisions and natural body orifices (nostril, urethra or rectum) for inserting small cameras and tools.
Minimally invasive surgical techniques enable surgeons to better visualize and target treatment areas and manipulate instruments more precisely, leading to reduced hospital stays and complications; many minimally invasive patients report experiencing less pain and swelling after procedures compared with traditional surgeries requiring narcotics as pain relief measures.
Shorter Recovery Time
Although it might seem unlikely, infections can still arise in a surgical environment despite best efforts at cleanliness. With minimally invasive surgeries, your surgeon only needs to make tiny incisions for their procedures – decreasing the chances of contamination entering your body through large incisions.
Small incisions make it easier for surgeons to access the area they need to work on and result in less trauma for you and a faster recovery time, helping you return sooner to the life you love.
Some minimally invasive surgeries rely on imaging technology to enhance their surgeon’s vision, such as MRIs, CT scans and ultrasound to help locate areas for operation.
Less Pain
Under minimally invasive surgery (MIS), surgeons insert small tube-like instruments equipped with a lighted camera and surgical tools into tiny incisions or natural body openings, in order to gain visibility of your internal anatomy during surgery and help guide them for laparoscopic, endoscopic or robotic procedures.
Surgical techniques like these enable doctors to avoid incisions that expose your internal organs to germs from outside, thus decreasing your risk of infection and expediting wound healing time.
As with traditional open surgeries, less tissue will be cut during and after your procedure; consequently incisions will be smaller. You could even be back home as early as 23 hours post procedure!
Less Scarring
Minimally invasive surgeries tend to leave significantly fewer scars than their open counterparts due to cutting smaller sections of tissue and healing faster.
Modern surgery has seen tremendous advances since anesthesia and Lister’s method of aseptic surgery became widely available during the 19th century. Surgeons now perform painless operations with dramatically lower infection risks to explore previously neglected parts of the body that previously would have prevented any incisions being made.
Minimally invasive surgeries include hysteroscopy (to operate on the uterus), laparoscopic surgery and VATS for diagnosing lung cancer or sinus blockages. All three methods use thin tubes with cameras and surgical instruments that fit inside patient bodies via small incisions to perform these procedures.
More Accuracy
Minimally invasive procedures allow your surgeon to perform precise operations without creating large cuts in muscle and tissue. Small incisions make accessing internal organs much simpler without cutting large sections away.
MIS reduces the likelihood of infection as its smaller wounds reduce bacteria or germs entering through large incisions; with its smaller openings left by MIS this risk decreases substantially.
Endoscopes, small video cameras used by surgeons to view inside the body, are inserted through one of these “keyhole” incisions in order to help your surgeon access internal organs with greater clarity. They transmit high-definition images onto video monitors in the operating room allowing greater surgical accuracy – while leaving behind much less noticeable scars after completion of treatment.
