Stress Response Reduction: A Prospective Strategy in Anesthesia

Since the first laparoscopic surgery on human in 1980s, the potential for manipulating the inflammatory and metabolic response to surgical trauma has been put into debate (1-5). Many physicians suggest that laparoscopic interventions are better called as “minimally invasive surgeries”, as in actuality they pose less “invasion” to the tissue, which is analogous to diminished inflammatory harmful mediators