What are the benefits of emergency laparoscopy?
Acute abdominal emergencies are diagnosed incorrectly or too late in 5 to 20% of cases. The delay in appropriate treatment, improper surgical access route and repeat surgery causes higher morbidity and mortality. Hospital stay and time of recovery are longer, resulting in higher costs for the community. In spite of rising accuracy of non-invasive methods there remain limitations which sometimes cannot be overcome by these investigations. In these condition only useful option is laparoscopy. Recently applicability of diagnostic and therapeutic emergency laparoscopy are highly demanded.Despite new x-ray techniques, CT scans and ultrasounds, the diagnosis of acute abdomen can be difficult at times. So far the most accurate non-invasive method of diagnosis is ultrasonography but this is not totally reliable. The history and physical examination will generally lead to the correct diagnosis. According to one prospective non-randomised study laparoscopy may prevent unnecessary appendicectomy
