Abstract

FERNANDEZ SANTIESTEBAN, Llipsy et al. Cirugía videolaparoscópica en urgencias. Rev Cubana Cir [online]. 2003, vol.42, n.1, pp. 0-0. ISSN 1561-2945.

A cross-sectional, prospective and descriptive study was conducted among those patients operated on by the video-assisted laparoscopic technique from October, 1995, to March, 2001. 151 patients underwent surgery by using this method. The diseases treated were acute cholecystitis (45.7 %), acute appendicitis (37.8 %), gynecological diseases and of other type (12.6 and 3.9 %, respectively), The average surgical time was 45 minuntes. The conversion index (only present in cholecystectomies) was 3.8 %. The trans- and postoperative complications were observed in 8.6 and 2.6 %, respectively. There were no deaths. Experience showed that video-assisted laparoscopic surgery is an excellent procedure to treat several surgical emergencies

Keywords : SURGICAL PROCEDURES, MINIMALLY INVASIVE; EMERGENCIES; CHOLECYSTECTOMY, LAPAROSCOPIC; CHOLECYSTITIS [surgery]; APPENDICITIS [surgery]; LAPAROSCOPY [methods].