Sarah A. Siddiqui, DO: No relevant financial relationships with any proprietary interests.
Learning Objectives:
Describe the benefits of laparoscopic surgery compared to open surgery, including its impact on postoperative recovery time, pain, infection rates, and hospital stay duration in low-resource settings.
Identify the major challenges to implementing laparoscopic surgery in LMICs, such as equipment cost, training limitations, infrastructure inadequacies, and workforce attrition.
Evaluate innovative adaptations of laparoscopic equipment and procedures tailored for resource-limited environments (e.g., gasless laparoscopy, repurposing nasogastric tubes and gloves as surgical tools).
