Early Experience of Laparoscopy in Emergency Operation Theatre at Lahore General Hospital, Lahore

Abstract

Laparoscopic surgical intervention has revolutionised the exposure of General surgeons in both diagnostic as well as therapeutic procedures in surgical emergency department at Lahore General Hospital, Lahore. It has helped the surgeons to make the Diagnosis with Laparoscope and then proceed in cases of blunt abdominal trauma, mesenteric bowel ischemia, ruptured ectopic pregnancy, sealed adhesion obstruction and duodenal ulcer perforation. At the same time Laparoscope in emergency has helped the patients of acute appendicitis and abdomen TB patients by their post operative pain, hospital stay, scar mark and early return to normal routine after surgery. It has really proved excellent in all the patients who underwent surgery with its help but still more data is needed to prove its value.