Minimal Access / Minimally invasive Surgery

Minimal Access / Minimally invasive Surgery is a means of performing major surgeries via small incisions as compared to larger incisions needed in traditional laparotomy, often using especially designed instruments and miniaturized, high-tech imaging systems, to minimize the trauma of surgical exposure. Minimal access does not refer to magnitude of invasiveness as absolute criteria, but invasiveness or accessibility is compared with a conventional open surgery.

When the concept of minimal invasive was introduced, it was expected to better or at latest equal the result of more traditional procedures. With the introduction of minimal access surgery with the introduction of patients comforts and post surgery recovery to normal health is enhanced. Nowadays almost all general surgical operations can be performed using minimal access including procedure in the chest and abdomen.