Tag Archives: hernia

Surgical energy in the contaminated wound: too much of a good thing?

Surgical energy has been widely used since its invention in the early 1900. Today, electrosurgery accounts for 80% of all dissections and hemostasis. For surgical energy we commonly refer to the capability of an electrosurgical unit (ESU)

Is it possible to operate multiple times endoscopically a person with incisional hernia?

An Incisional Hernia is a hernia that occurs through a previously made incision in the abdominal wall, in the scar left from a previous surgical operation. The first time that an incisional hernia was treated with minimally invasive