 The
Rigid Hospital is organising a workshop on Hernia on April 4, 2004 (Sunday) between 0800 to 1400 hrs at the Hospital. Dr J S Rajkumar, hospital chairman, will demonstrate the modern techniques in Hernia operation, which will be telecast live at Breeze Hotel.
Around 250 medical students, post-graduates and practicing surgeons from Chennai, Pondicherry and Chidambaram will witness the live demonstration at the Breeze Hotel. Dr Rajkumar will be assisted by a team of doctors and seven moderators closely watching the procedures. This will be a practical learning session for the medical students and surgeons as they will be able to apply the procedures once they have acquired the skills through the live demonstration.
Dr Rajkumar
will use a tension–free ‘mesh’ prosthetics procedure as
compared to the age-old stitch-solution. This can be done using the
open technique or the laproscopic approach. In the laproscopic
technique, there are two routes of access. One is the Trans –
Abdominal Approach (TAPP) and the other is the totally
Extraperitineal approach.
Rigid Hospital has performed approximately 500 such procedures in the past. Using the laproscope and keyhole incisions to insert the 'mesh' into the right plane and fixing it there are the vital points of this procedure.
Hernia is one of
the commonest problems in India that requires surgery. Annually in
India, over two lakh operations take place. Although hernia
operations have been known for the last 100 years, several exciting
new hernia surgical procedures have evolved over the last 20 years,
and particularly so in the past 5 years. The use of ‘mesh’
prosthetics has revolutionised this operation. Along with the
Laproscope, a painful surgery has been converted into a
patient-friendly and simple one.
 Dr Rajkumar said there were some ingenious persons who used a mosquito net too and said they had carried it out with success! However, this is not recommended. A mesh, in fact, is not costly now, the cost coming down from Rs 8,000 to just Rs 1,000 now, he added.
The effort now is "to find new solutions to age-old problems," Dr Rajkumar said adding Rigid Hospitals had achieved a high success rate even with the new techniques.
For further information, contact:
Rigid Hospitals
Tel: 9841017163
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