OR / Prep · Colorectal Surgery · laparoscopic
You’re scrubbing into
Right hemicolectomy
Why are we operating?
Resection of the right colon for cancer: take the vessels at their origin, take the nodes with them, and join ileum to transverse colon.
Indication: Right-sided colon cancer; caecal volvulus; some right-sided Crohn's complications.
The operation in 4 steps
01Access and staging the abdomen
02Vascular pedicle first
03Mobilisation
04Resection and ileocolic anastomosis
Watch it done
Right hemicolectomy explained
The operation drawn and narrated by surgeons who teach it: mobilisation, vessels, anastomosis.
Source: School of Surgery · Watch on YouTube
Conceptual teaching for learners preparing to observe and assist under supervision, not operative instructions. Five minutes from now you should know why this operation exists, what its shape is, and which structures it is designed not to injure.