You only need to contact your GP, the hospital or NHS for advice if they're particularly severe or persistent. In many cases, dissolvable stitches will be used to close your wounds. These should start to disappear by themselves within a week or two. If non-dissolvable stitches were used, you'll usually need to have them removed by a nurse at your GP surgery after 7 to 10 days.
You'll be given an appointment for this before you leave hospital. You'll be told about how to look after your wound and stitches, including how long any dressings need to stay on, when they should be replaced and when you can start having showers or baths. Find out how to care for your stitches. There will be scars where the cuts were made in your tummy. These will probably be red and obvious at first, but should fade over time.
A cholecystectomy is a common surgery, and it carries only a small risk of complications. In most cases, you can go home the same day of your cholecystectomy. A cholecystectomy is most commonly performed by inserting a tiny video camera and special surgical tools through four small incisions to see inside your abdomen and remove the gallbladder. Doctors call this a laparoscopic cholecystectomy. In some cases, one large incision may be used to remove the gallbladder.
This is called an open cholecystectomy. Gallstones are hardened deposits of bile that can form in your gallbladder. Bile is a digestive fluid produced in your liver and stored in your gallbladder. When you eat, your gallbladder contracts and empties bile into your small intestine duodenum. A cholecystectomy is most commonly performed to treat gallstones and the complications they cause.
Your doctor may recommend a cholecystectomy if you have:. Your risk of complications depends on your overall health and the reason for your cholecystectomy. Most people go home the same day of their cholecystectomy, but complications can occur that require one or more nights in the hospital. Plan ahead in case you need to stay in the hospital by bringing personal items, such as your toothbrush, comfortable clothing, and books or magazines to pass the time.
Find someone to drive you home and stay with you. Ask a friend or family member to drive you home and stay close the first night after surgery. A cholecystectomy is performed using general anesthesia, so you won't be aware during the procedure. Anesthesia drugs are given through a vein in your arm. Once the drugs take effect, your health care team will insert a tube down your throat to help you breathe. Your surgeon then performs the cholecystectomy using either a laparoscopic or open procedure.
During a laparoscopic cholecystectomy, the surgeon makes four small incisions in your abdomen. A tube with a tiny video camera is inserted into your abdomen through one of the incisions.
Your surgeon watches a video monitor in the operating room while using surgical tools inserted through the other incisions in your abdomen to remove your gallbladder. Next you may undergo an imaging test, such as an X-ray or ultrasound, if your surgeon is concerned about possible gallstones or other problems in your bile duct.
What To Expect After Surgery You may have gallbladder surgery as an outpatient, or you may stay 1 or 2 days in the hospital. Why It Is Done Laparoscopic gallbladder surgery is the best method of treating gallstones that cause symptoms, unless there is a reason that the surgery should not be done. How Well It Works Laparoscopic gallbladder surgery is safe and effective. Risks The overall risk of laparoscopic gallbladder surgery is very low. The most serious possible complications include: Infection of an incision.
Internal bleeding. Injury to the common bile duct. Injury to the small intestine by one of the instruments used during surgery. Risks of general anesthesia. Other uncommon complications may include: Gallstones that remain in the abdominal cavity. Bile that leaks into the abdominal cavity. Injury to abdominal blood vessels, such as the major blood vessel carrying blood from the heart to the liver hepatic artery.
This is rare. A gallstone being pushed into the common bile duct. The liver being cut. More surgery may be needed to repair these complications. What To Think About Recovery is much faster and less painful after laparoscopic surgery than after open surgery. The hospital stay after laparoscopic surgery is shorter than after open surgery. People generally go home the same day or the next day, compared with 2 to 4 days or longer for open surgery.
Recovery is faster after laparoscopic surgery. You will spend less time away from work and other activities after laparoscopic surgery about 7 to 10 days compared with 4 to 6 weeks.
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