Minimally invasive surgery

What is minimally invasive surgery?

Surgery performed with smaller incision (cut on the skin)

What are the advantages of minimally invasive surgery?

Patient experience lesser pain

Patients experience lesser bleeding hence reduces the requirement of blood being given during and after surgery

Rehabilitation is faster as pain is significantly lesser

Patient needs to spend lesser time in the hospital

In which cases can this technique be used?

Minimally invasive surgery can be done for kneereplacements,hip replacements,and certain fractures

Let us see a couple of examples

Knee replacement

                                                                                                                                                   4.5 inch incision

Hip fractures(intertrochanteric fractures)

                             before surgery                                                 after Surgery

This a photo of a 80 year old patient who devloped a fracture of her hip ,the clinical photo shows the small size of the inciscions patient was able to walk on the leg the next day

Hip fracture(transcervival)

This was a 78 year old patient who sustained a fracture of the rt hip

                          X-ray before surgery                                                 X-ray after Surgery                                                 3.5 inch incision

This is a photo of the surgical inciscion just after the operation as you can see the surgical cut was only 3.5 inches patient was walking the next day after surgery

Tibia fractures(tibia fracture)

This was a patient who was involved in a vehicular accident as is visible there were 4 different pieces

                                                                          X-ray before surgery                                      X-ray after Surgery

                                       Upper incision 2 inch incision                                                                                  Lower incision 1 cm

Thigh bone fracture in a child(femur)

This is a case of a 9 year old boy who sustained a nasty fracture of his thigh bone

                                          Before surgery                                                 After Surgery

                                The patient was able to walk the next day with the help of crutches ,no plaster or brace was required

Hand fracture(metacarpal)

This was a 27 year old man with a displaced fracture of the hand bones

                            Before surgery                                                 After Surgery

The patient was operated with a 1 cm cut he was in a plaster for 15 days till his stiches were removed no plaster was required after that he has full range of motion