[Answered]: 210 Section 2 – Principles and Practice of…

210 Section 2 – Principles and Practice of Surgical Technology Case Study 4 Dorothea, a 62 -year-old morbidly obese diabetic has acute abdominal pain and appendicitis is suspected. The patient is scheduled for a laparoscopic appendectomy. Upon entry, the surgeon notes that the appendix has ruptured and the surgeon decides to go open. The appendix was removed. The skin and subcutaneous layers of the wound have been left open. The surgeon told the patient that if the wound showed no signs of infection in five days, they would finish the closure. The patient will return to the surgeon’s office later for removal of the skin stitches at their postoperative visit. For a laparoscopic surgery, you had thought the surgeon would use an intracorporeal method of ligating the appendix. What would the surgeon have used? What is the difference between intracorporeal and extracorporeal?