The Human Biology in Medical Field

Fat sSuctioning by liposuction is so popular. Men and women with excessive fat consider it as a solution to improve posture to be slim.

In liposuction, fat under the skin removed through surgery that uses a cannula (liposuction instruments). The device is inserted through a small incision in the skin and is assisted by suction.

Subcutaneous fat suctioning was started in 1926. Charles Dujarier, was a French surgeon. While modern liposuction was developed in 1974 by Italian gynecologist named Giorghio Fischer.

Indeed, there are two anesthesia techniques in liposuction surgery. Namely, general (general anesthesia) and the tumescent (localized). General anesthesia makes the patient unconscious and unable to feel pain when the cannula touches the parts that are not necessary. Fatal consequences when the cannula touches the vital organs like heart, lungs, or kidneys. While the use of local anesthesia makes the patient to immediately notify a doctor when in pain. So any suction errors can be avoided.

Based on 2006 guidelines published by the American Society for Dermatologic Surgery (ASDs), tumescent liposuction technique is a combination of local anesthesia and method of making fat under the skin. Tumescent technique is done by inserting (infiltration) low concentration crystalloid fluids into the subcutaneous fat. The liquid also serves as a local anesthetic. After infiltration of tumescent anesthesia, subcutaneous fat is siphoned through a small cannula that penetrates the skin through small incisions.

When compared with other liposuction techniques, tumescent technique can take more proportion of fat. In addition, bleeding is minimal.

The selection technique is reinforced by a report that contains the security and safety of tumescent liposuction. National surveys in the United States in 2002 by Housman and colleagues, for example, reported more than 66,000 acts with local anesthesia technique. “From the whole amount, not a single case of death. The possibility of complications is only 0.68 percent per thousand tumescent liposuction procedure,” he explained. For liposuction performed under general anesthesia, there were two deaths reported.