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Plasma progress
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24/04/2006
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Invasive surgical procedures, as well as being riskier for patients, are time consuming and costly for hospitals. And patients need considerably longer to recover. That’s why medical researchers are looking to develop less invasive surgical procedures.
Laparoscopic techniques – involving tiny incisions, rather than a large opening – have mainly been used in the past to aid diagnosis. Now, they are being used more and more for surgical treatment. As a result, large savings are being reaped by medical establishments and, more importantly, by patients themselves. Laparoscopy is also allowing elderly and infirm patients to benefit from treatment that would otherwise be too risky to carry out.
However, whilst there are moves to broaden the number of surgical procedures available using laparoscopy, there are operations where the technique has been ruled out. However, one company believes that a new blood coagulation technique involving plasma gas, might enable laparoscopic surgical procedures to be suitable for these operations in the future.
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Author
Vanessa Knivett
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