Comparative study of laparascopic surgery of female genital appratus in sow and bitch

Abstract

The advantages of using the laparoscopic surgry to the detriment of traditional surgery are reducing pain and post surgery complications and obtaining a better view of the area. The aim of this study is to evaluate the efficacy of using ultrasonic scalpel and bipolar scissors in laparocopic ovariectomy (OV) and ovariohysterectomy (OVH) in bitch and sow. Also, it has been tried to assess the degree of difficulty of the ovariectomy and the ovariohysterectomy, espectively in the two species. The study was conducted on 6 animals (two sows and four bitches). The introduction of the pneumoperitoneum induction was performed using the Veress needle. The surgeries were performed through the abdominal cavity using three trocars helping to introduce the laparoscope, an atraumatic forceps and the ultrasound scalpel or the bipolar scissors, following a previous skin incision. Using the ultrasonic scalpel successfully complements other instruments such as the traumatic forceps, scissors and haemostatic tool. Through its excellent haemostatic capacities there have been not registered significant blood loos as a consequence of the surgical removal of the ovaries or the uterus with the ovaries, when either the ultrasonic scalpel or bipolar scissors were used. Due to the difficulty of surgical laparoscopic removal of the sow genital apparatus, connected to the similarities in the the two species genital apparatus, it is reasonable to conclude that the surgery in sow is a model for the surgery in bitch.