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Minimally Invasive Procedures MIP
South Florida Minimally Invasive Colon and Rectal Surgery offers the latest in miminally invasive surgical procedures.
Although the specific techniques can vary from procedure to procedure, minimally invasive surgical procedures utilize video cameras and lens systems to provide anatomic visualization within a specific region of the body.
Attaining such visualization requires the creation and maintenance of an optical cavity, most commonly created with carbon dioxide insufflation. By creating small incisions in the skin, narrow tubes are inserted through the abdominal wall so that instruments can be passed through them to perform the maneuvers required for the procedure. The entire operation is viewed directly on a video monitor. The image is received from a video camera attached to the laparoscope instrument. Video cameras and specialized designed surgical instruments are inserted through small incisions in the skin and utilized within the optical cavity for the removal or repair of an organ system.
You May Be a Candidate for a Minimally Invasive Procedure (MIP)
Most MIP patients have quicker recovery, shorter hospital stays, and less scarring than patients who have conventional surgery.
Talk to your doctor about whether or not you are a candidate for a Minimally Invasive Procedure (MIP).
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Benefits of Minimally Invasive Procedures (MIP)
MIP is changing the way many people think about surgery. Patients who choose MIP over conventional surgery may no longer face lengthy recoveries and hospital stays. Instead, they are able to get back to the things that are important to them much sooner.
MIP, which includes laparoscopic surgery, uses state-of-the-art technology. When performing MIP, the surgeon creates small, dime-sized incisions that allow the use of a miniature camera, or videoscope, and specialized instruments to perform the procedure—so there’s no need for a large, conventional incision.
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How MIP Works
For most procedures, surgeons trained in MIP use trocars (thin tubes) placed through three to five small, dime-sized incisions. After the trocars are inserted, carbon dioxide gas is used to inflate the abdomen and create a working space between the internal organs and the skin. Then a videoscope is placed through one of the trocars so that the surgical team can view the procedure from video monitors in the operating room. The image on the video monitors is magnified, which provides better visibility for the operating room staff. Specialized instruments are placed through the other trocars to perform the operation. In some procedures, like MIP for colon conditions, a slightly larger incision may be needed while in other procedures, such as MIP for hemorrhoid surgery, no incisions and no trocars are needed.
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You May Be a Candidate for MIP
As more than 20 million Americans have already experienced, MIP offers significant benefits over conventional surgery. Are you a candidate for MIP? That’s a question you’ll need to discuss with your doctor. But MIP has been proven to provide outcomes equivalent to those of conventional surgery.
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Benefits of Minimally Invasive Procedures (MIP)
MIP is designed to get you back to the things that are important to you as quickly as possible. In fact, MIP has been proven to provide outcomes equivalent to those of conventional surgery and has many significant benefits over conventional surgery:
- Less Recovery Time - Since MIP requires smaller incisions than conventional surgery (usually about the size of a dime), your body can heal much faster.
- Less Time in Hospital - MIP helps get you out of the hospital and back to your life quicker than conventional surgery.
- Less scarring - You won’t have to cope with large scars from MIP. Most incisions are so small that most people probably won’t even notice them after the incisions have healed.1
- Less pain - Since MIP is less invasive than conventional surgery, there is typically less pain involved.
Find out if MIP is an option for your surgery by talking with your doctor.
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MIP for Colon Surgery
During “minimally invasive,” or laparoscopic, colon surgery, the surgeon makes a series of small incisions, from one-fourth inch to four inches, in the patient’s abdomen. A small video camera or “scope” is placed in one of the incisions, providing the surgeon with a magnified view of the patient’s internal organs on a television monitor. Surgical instruments are placed in the other incisions allowing the surgeon to work inside and remove portions of the colon.
Laparoscopic colon surgery has been shown as effective as open surgery, while offering many benefits over the open procedure. These benefits include:
- Less pain and scarring
- Quicker recovery time
- Shorter hospital stay
- Better cosmetic results
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MIP for Hemorrhoid Surgery
For advanced hemorrhoids is called the Procedure for Prolapse and Hemorrhoids (PPH). This minimally invasive surgery technique was developed in the early 1990s to reduce the prolapse of hemorrhoidal tissue to allow a patient to experience less pain and recover faster than patients who undergo the conventional hemorrhoidectomy procedure.
Conventional hemorrhoidectomy procedures are painful because hemorrhoidal tissue is surgically removed, affecting many nerve endings. In comparison, PPH reduces the prolapse of hemorrhoidal tissue by utilizing a circular stapler to trim out a band of tissue above the dentate line, or "pain" line, within the anal canal. The PPH surgical procedure essentially "lifts up" or repositions the anal canal tissue and restores the hemorrhoidal tissue to its original anatomical position, without cutting sensitive nerve endings. The internal hemorrhoids then shrink within four to six weeks after the procedure.
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