Surgery is currently an important part of cancer treatment, and the five-year survival rate of some early-stage cancer after surgery can even reach more than 80%. It can be seen that the success of the operation is very important to the patient's prognosis! As Hong Kong's medical care is widely recognized by the public, whether to choose to go to Hong Kong for surgery has become a question for many mainland cancer patients to think about. What are the advantages of surgical treatment in Hong Kong?
1. Preoperative high-tech simulation training
Most patients at first felt that with a large domestic population, the number of mainland doctors undergoing surgery must far exceed that of Hong Kong. Practice makes perfect, and the experience and skills of mainland doctors should not be worse than that of Hong Kong. In fact, this is a misunderstanding of modern surgical treatment! In fact, doing more surgery does not necessarily have more experience (the “experience” here refers to the correct experience). If it is not an effective and safe surgical plan, then “doing more” may be more wrong. At present, many hospitals in the mainland are still conducting traditional surgical training, which mainly relies on practicing on real patients. This kind of operation is full of randomness and uncertainty, and the operation is very risky.
At present, Hong Kong uses the international advanced surgical simulation training system and 3D printing simulation training model, combined with the virtual body scanned by the actual patient's image for navigation, restore the real clinical environment, so that the surgeon can obtain sufficient medical training and realistic surgical rehearsals before entering the operating room, and design the most effective and safe treatment.plan. In other words, before a Hong Kong doctor performs surgery on a real patient, he may have rehearsed countless times through the simulation training system! This is conducive to greatly reducing the potential risks of actual surgery and improving the success rate of surgery. At the same time, patients can also obtain better safety and treatment results.
2. The high-quality surgical team works closely together
In Hong Kong, a good surgical team may not be a team that has performed thousands of operations, but it must be a team that performs in strict accordance with the international surgical clinical practice guidelines and works closely together. The requirements of a successful surgical operation on the team of doctors are very high. In addition to the surgeon who removes the tumor, the anesthesiologist who monitors heart rate, blood pressure, and breathing throughout the operation and performs precise anesthesia, the assistant doctor who is responsible for the suture and cleaning of the incision, the nurse who coordinates the whole process of the operation, etc., They all play an indispensable role in the operation process.
Resection of the tumor is only one part of the treatment process. If there is a problem in other parts, such as a low dose of anesthesia, poor surgical suture, or an error in the delivery of medical equipment, these will affect the patient's postoperative prognosis. This may be the reason why some patients have found a good surgeon in the mainland for surgery, but their postoperative recovery is not good. If the healing of the incision is not good, it will affect the subsequent treatment.
3. Advanced Da Vinci minimally invasive surgery system
The Da Vinci minimally invasive surgical system introduced in Hong Kong has high-resolution stereo (3D) images. The surgical field of view image is enlarged 10 to 15 times, providing a true 16:9 panoramic three-dimensional image, so that doctors can more accurately determine the location of the tumor during the operation. The EndoWment technology, which simulates wrist surgical instruments and can provide 7 degrees of freedom, can complete movements that cannot be achieved by human hands, with more flexible control and a wider range of activities.
Doctors' surgical movements are defibrillated and regulated, the treatment is more refined and the trauma is less, so that the indications of minimally invasive surgery are enlarged, postoperative pain is reduced, hospitalization time is shortened, blood loss is reduced, and postoperative adhesion caused by tissue trauma and inflammatory reactions during surgery is reduced, allowing patients to return to normal work and life faster. In addition, the Da Vinci robotic arm has expanded the scope of application of minimally invasive surgery, and improved the treatment effect and patient safety.
4. High standards of sanitary conditions
In addition to the team of doctors and equipment, another important factor is sanitary conditions. Patients undergoing surgery have wounds on their bodies. If the sanitary conditions of the hospital are not good, they are very prone to infection. If the infection is mild, it may be inflammation and fever. If it is infected with pathogenic bacteria, it may cause sepsis and even life-threatening if it is serious!
The medical environment in Hong Kong, the cleaning and disinfection of medical equipment and medical linen, the hygiene of team members participating in surgery and nursing care, etc. are also carried out in strict accordance with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidelines for the disinfection and sterilization of medical institutions. In the past ten years, the patients we arranged for surgery in Hong Kong have never heard of postoperative infections. This is also an important reason why we are very confident in Hong Kong surgery.
5. Scientific postoperative nursing medication
Many mainland hospitals use antibiotics prophylactically during surgery, hoping to reduce the occurrence of postoperative complications. Some patients have reported to us that after undergoing surgery in mainland hospitals, they often need to rest in bed for a few weeks. During this period, they also need various infusions. Their bodies are getting weaker and weaker. Some patients have not recovered even for several months after the operation. On the other hand, in Hong Kong hospitals, you can see that many patients can get out of bed on the day of the operation, and there is no need for long-term infusion after the operation. After a few days in the hospital, they can go home to recuperate, and even quickly return to normal work and life.
In fact, in Hong Kong, surgical category I operations such as neck surgery (including thyroid) surgery, breast surgery, spleen resection, etc. generally do not require the use of antibiotics. They only need to take anti-inflammatory drugs for a period of time, and only consider the application of antibacterial drugs if the patient has infection risk factors. This not only reduces the risk of bacterial drug resistance caused by the abuse of antibiotics, but also helps to promote the patient's own conditioning and recovery after surgery.
Warm reminder: The close cooperation of the surgical team, accurate surgical instruments, advanced monitoring instruments, safe anesthesia, high standards of hygiene, scientific postoperative nursing and medication, etc., are all commendable places for surgery in Hong Kong.
