It is now recognised as the most important and influential meeting for endoscopic surgery in the world. As such, world leaders and distinguished experts in Endoscopic Surgery are attracted to the event. Singapore is honoured to host the Congress. One of the most important changes to the practice of medicine over the past two decades has been the reduction in wound trauma inherent in all surgical interventions. Since 1987, Minimally Invasive Surgery or MIS has revolutionised and transformed the surgical landscape.
Surgeons are now able to perform the same operation through smaller and fewer openings.
Today, Minimally Invasive Surgery is well established in most branches of surgery. It has been successfully developed for almost every single conventional surgical procedure to the extent that some of these new approaches have completely replaced the need for open surgery. Examples of these include laparoscopic procedures for gall bladder surgery, gastro-esophageal reflux disease and adrenal gland excision. Patients experience less pain and disability with laparoscopic procedures as compared with open surgery. They recover more quickly.