ABSTRACT
Gynecologists have led the surgical specialties in recognizing the benefits to our patients of reduced postoperative pain, hospital admissions, and quicker return to normal activities associated with laparoscopy. Improved optics, lighting, instrumentation, and technology over the last 15 years have seen an explosion in operative general gynecology surgery previously performed via laparotomy. Over the next decade, as laparoscopic suturing techniques are mastered, the laparoscope is likely to play an increasingly important role in female pelvic floor surgery. It is vital while laparoscopic pelvic floor surgery is in its infancy that we are competent in the prevention, recognition, and treatment of complications associated with this mode of access to the abdomen.
