The Emergency Hospital Bucharest to the Forefront of the Emergency Laparoscopic Surgery Development

The use of laparoscopy in traumatic and non-traumatic abdominal surgical emergencies is unanimously accepted due to the well-known advantages of minimally invasive surgery. In the period 1961-1966 in the Clinical Emergency Hospital of Bucharest (CEHB) the first diagnostic laparoscopes were performed in the acute surgical abdomen, respectively in the obstructive jaundice by dr. Gh.Popovici, respectively dr.C.Petrescu.In the modern era, the first laparoscopic cholecystectomy was performed in 4 dec. 1993 by A.E.N.In 1994 the first laparoscopic appendectomies, gynecological emergencies, exploration in traumatic abdominal contusion, followed by perforated ulcer (1995), intestinal occlusion (1997), were performed. In the specialized literature, out of the 42 emergency laparoscopy articles published in the journal “Chirurgia” (1994-2019), 16 (38,08%) belonged to the CEHB team, 11 of AEN. In 2004 the original monograph "Laparoscopic Emergency Surgery" appeared. Specialized chapters are added in different volumes of surgical pathology. At the Romanian Assocation of Endoscopic Surgery Congress (RAES) of 2008, the international participation course “Laparoscopy in the acute abdomen” was organized. Since 2013, annual trauma workshops (DSTC ™) and non-traumatic abdominal emergencies have been organized with international participation by CEHB, the surgery clinic, and the UMFCarol Davila Department of Anatomy. CEHB surgeons presented papers at EAES,EATES and ESTES congresses. Of the 1699 laparoscopic operations performed in the clinic in 2018, accounting for 31.27% of the total operations, 493 (29.01%) were in emergency. The SCUB surgeons have had and have a major contribution in preparing the residents, implementing and developing emergency laparoscopy within the miniminvasive therapy, the therapy of the future.