Video laparoscopic surgery
Cirugía laparoscópica con vídeo
- Date
- 1985-1987 · confidence high
- Place
- Böblingen, Germany (Mühe, 1985); Lyon, France (Mouret, 1987)
- Credited to
- Erich Mühe (first laparoscopic cholecystectomy, 1985); Philippe Mouret (with video camera, 1987); Kurt Semm (gynaecology, Kiel)
- People
- 👤 Erich Mühe1938–2005👤 Kurt Semm1927–2003👤 Philippe Mouret1938–2008
- Field
- Life & health
What it is
Operations through small incisions with a video camera and long instruments, instead of opening the abdomen. It reduced pain, scarring and hospital stays.
What it led to
- Minimally invasive surgery as the norm
- Robotic surgery
- Day surgery and the reduction of hospital beds
Built on
- Flexible fibre-optic endoscope1957
- Charge-coupled device (CCD) image sensor1969
- fibre endoscope
- CCD sensor
- CO2 insufflator
Made possible
- In vitro fertilisation (IVF)1978
- Surgical robot (da Vinci)2000
- da Vinci surgical robot
- outpatient surgery