Wednesday, February 5, 2014

Laparoscopic inguinal Hernia


This surgery was the hardest one to understand because I was hardly able to tell what was going on. There were a lot of new doctors. The interesting thing for me was that the patient was asian. One young looking PA was nicely talking to me after the surgery ended. She said that I could ask her anything about the surgery and she understood if it was hard to understand the surgery because that surgery was actually hard one to understand for other doctors too. I asked her two questions about what exactly "Hernia" was and what were looking like spider webs. 

she answered thoroughly and nicely. 

Hernia is basically the one that is dislocated from the place where the part of the organ should be located.

According to the dictionary, hernia is a condition in which part of an organ is displaced and protrudes through the wall of the cavity containing it, which is pretty close to how I understood by listening to PA's explanation. 

The answer for the second question was a fascia which is s a layer of fibrous tissue.
They really do look like spider silky webs. (It took me forever to find this word because I didn't know how to spell this word but the sound.)

The second surgery that I could only see the beginning part because of time was about one grandmother who had to get rid of ovary and fallopian tube. She had to spread her legs on the operating table, which means I could see her virgina. I didn't find out the reason of her taking the surgery. It was scary but amazing when I saw her getting under anesthesia in 2 minutes after an anesthesiologist injected the anesthetic drugs. 

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