Surgeon takes new route to gallbladder

New Surgical techniques are being developed to help minimize the effects of open surgery. In this article a surgeon in Oregon removes a women's gallbladder through her mouth. This type of surgery has been performed on animal models and human patients in Europe. I think this is fairly important because as future healthcare professionals and biomedical engineers it should be out goal to provide new and innovative ideas that better the health of our patients/customers. With this new procedure post-op pain, intra operative complications are and recovery time is reduced. With the perfection of the NOTES technique many common surgeries will be expedited.


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