Many surgical procedures do not call for a general patient anesthesia nor do they involve respiratory assistance. And although the procedure will certainly demand a local anesthetic to ensure that the procedure is painless because of an incision with instruments and the need for sutures, these minor surgeries can be performed outside of the AMC surgical theatres in appropriately equipped treatment rooms. The vast majority of these procedures require just a few minutes and then following a short rest period, the patient returns home.
Advances in surgical techniques have in many cases blurred the lines demarcating what were once major and what are now minor surgeries. Sometimes lasers, ultrasonic scalpels, electrical vaporization rather than steel scalpels, are used to cut tissue or otherwise significantly diminish its size.
For example, the AMC surgical clinic will offer a wide variety of surgical procedures in the fields of dermatology and plastics: patients who seek esthetic cosmetic plastic surgery and those who require medical plastic surgery. Thus for example, the following procedures will be carried out by the finest surgeons in Israel: scar revision, rhinoplasty (nose surgery), breast reduction, blepharoplasty (eyelid surgery), skin growth removal, skin grafting to hide trauma scars, excision of sebaceous cysts (lumps that occur just beneath the skin surface), suspicious moles and skin cancers (either by cutting, scraping, or freezing), injections into the joints to the drainage of abscesses, treatment of fingernail infections and banding of hemorrhoids.
Laparoscopic surgery will be done to repair hernias, perform cholecystectomies (surgical removal of the gallbladder), appendectomies and other procedures. In addition, ultrasound and stereotactic techniques for evaluating breast, thyroid and parathyroid conditions will be available.