Laser: easier surgery

1990/10/01 Elhuyar Zientzia Iturria: Elhuyar aldizkaria

• Medikuntza

The technique developed recently by English surgeons to eliminate the gallbladder is a great advantage for many people. On the one hand, the patient will have less time and on the other, will have to stay less time in the hospital.

Every year in the UK, some 100,000 people are forced to undergo this operation. In the hospital you have to spend 5 days and when the abdominal muscles have been cut you also have to suffer pain. Finally, it takes five weeks to fully recover.

Surgeons use the laparoscope (a rigid tube that is inserted into the stomach and has a small TV camera) and the laser in the cut. In this way, instead of trimming 14 cm, you only have to make a few small holes.

This method allows the patient to go home the day after the cut.