Minimally
Invasive Surgery
General
Information
Thanks
to advances in fiber optics and video technology, surgeons
can now view their work through tiny instruments, allowing
them to perform operations through very small cuts or
incisions. The smaller incisions mean less pain, quicker
recovery and smaller scars -- three very positive benefits
that explain the popularity of minimally invasive surgery.
Traditional
gall bladder surgery, for example, once required a major
incision. Recovery was slow and painful. Now, minimally
invasive techniques allow surgeons to insert small probes,
observe their work on a television screen and remove
a gallbladder through a cut small enough to cover with
a Band-Aid.
Physicians
Medical Center Carraway Minimally Invasive Surgery is
at the forefront of this new technology, using new surgical
approaches for everything from repairing hernias to
treating severe gastric reflux problems. And these new
procedures are much easier on patients than traditional
operations.
Of
course, these new minimally invasive techniques will
never totally eliminate the need for every traditional
surgical procedure. But these techniques can be used
by virtually every surgical subspecialty from neurosurgery
to urology. Physicians at PMCC Minimally Invasive Surgery
already use this revolutionary new technology to perform
more than 30 different surgical procedures.
These
procedures are done using one of the most advanced pieces
of minimally invasive surgical equipment available.
PMCC was the first hospital in Alabama to purchase equipment
which fully integrates the endosurgical system, allowing
surgeons to control all endosurgical devices directly
from the sterile field and giving them better control
over the growing number of endoscopic devices needed
for performing minimally invasive surgery.
PMCC
Minimally Invasive Surgery is an important part of our
commitment to ensure its patients have access to new,
life-enhancing technology.
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