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Review Article - Anaesthesia for laparoscopic surgery Jayashree Sood, V. P. Kumra Abstract The use of laparoscopic techniques has become common in clinical practice. Operations that once required long hospitalization are now being performed on a short-stay basis. Initially, laparoscopy was confined to short, diagnostic gynaecological procedures carried out on young, healthy females. However, it has now extended to various intra-abdominal surgeries and is now also being performed on older patients who may have coexisting cardiac or pulmonary diseases.

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