Clinic installs Stryker three chip camera system

Chennai, Apr 10: Lotus Gall stone speciality clinic and Advanced Laparoscopic Surgical centre, has installed ''Stryker three chip camera system,'' a high definition camera for a ''no pain, no scar and no blood loss'' gall stone removal surgery.

Talking to UNI, Dr P Satish said the latest camera, launched in the US in January this year, is introduced for the first time in Tamil Nadu for the benefit of patient, who could walk away, a day after the surgery.

Using the high definition camera system, surgery could be done through ''mini laparoscopy,'' where a five mm incision (a surgical cut made in skin or flesh) would be made for the optics, which virtually leaves no pain and scar.

''As the vision is perfect, the high-tech bloodless surgery, reduces the possibility of surgeons making error to almost nil and ensures that tissues around the gall bladder are not damaged,'' he said.

The treatment of patient with gall stone was removal of gall bladder with stones. The conventional treatment was open ''cholecystectomy (gall bladder removal through a 10 cm cut), which was performed till 15 years back.

With the introduction of ''laproscopic surgical technique (key hole surgery), laparoscopic cholecystectomy became the treatment of choice, in which scar was reduced from 10 cm in open cholecystectomy to just 10 mm for optics in key hole surgery.

In the key hole surgery, the scar reduces, blood loss is less and the hospital stay becomes minimal. After the introduction of ultrasonic haemostatic equipment (Harmonic scalpel), the blood loss has became nil and the introduction of the high definition camera system has brought about a revolution in the surgery, Dr Satish said.

The centre has invested about Rs 35 lakh in installing the latest equipment and Dr Satish, who trained more than 2,000 surgeons in the state and other parts of the country, said that he wished all patients get access to the five mm surgery.

''I am planning to train Surgeons throughout south India in the new technology,'' he said. Fortunately, the incidence of gall stone was one to two per cent in India, compared to nearly 10 per cent in other countries.

UNI