Minimally invasive surgery at the
Minnesota Institute for Minimally Invasive Surgery

The technological breakthroughs of the past twenty years have fundamentally changed the medical world’s approach to surgery. Digital imaging, coupled with a new generation of smaller, more precise surgical tools, has eliminated the need to make major incisions in many routine procedures. Equipped with these tools, surgeons are developing amazing new procedures at an incredible rate. Minimally invasive surgery, represents a giant leap, one that many experts equate with the introduction of anesthetics and antibiotics.

The Minnesota Institute for Minimally Invasive Surgery (MIMIS) is located at Cuyuna Regional Medical Center on the medical campus in Crosby, MN. MIMIS surgery center is a vision and commitment of CRMC and the surgeons of its Eye, Orthopaedic, Gynecologic, LaparoEndoscopic (General), and Weight Loss surgery specialties to support and promote minimally invasive surgery.

To date, CRMC’s Minnesota Institute for Minimally Invasive Surgery is home to twelve surgeons trained to perform more than one-hundred different types of minimally invasive surgical procedures. Using cameras, scopes, and small-diameter surgical tools, these procedures eliminate the need to make major incisions, lower the risk of infection, and lead to faster recovery for patients, among many other health benefits. At MIMIS, more than seventy percent of all procedures are performed using minimally invasive techniques.

Minimally invasive surgery incisions click to enlarge   Traditional open surgery incisions click to enlarge

What is minimally invasive surgery?

Minimally invasive surgery takes advantage of new technologies to reduce the size of incision required for many traditional surgeries. In most minimally invasive procedures, a tiny camera is inserted into the body through a small incision. The surgeon is able to view a video image of the surgical site on a screen and perform the procedure by manipulating tools inserted through very small incisions. The end result of this surgical technique is less pain, faster healing, reduced risk of infection, and shorter hospital stays.

Our surgical suites

The Minnesota Institute for Minimally Invasive Surgery (MIMIS), located at Cuyuna Regional Medical Center on the medical campus in Crosby, is served by twelve minimally invasive surgeons, supported by more than sixty-five operating room professionals, and sustained by the skills and dedication of an entire medical campus.

Officially established in 2003, MIMIS has been acquiring technologies and expertise, as well as performing minimally invasive surgery for nearly 20 years.  MIMIS’s highly skilled and expertly trained surgeons and perioperative medical professionals are surgical leaders in the areas of laparoendoscopic, ophthalmic, GYN and orthopaedic procedures.  MIMIS’ facilities include state of the art MIS surgery and endoscopy suites.  MIMIS staffs more than 65 health care professionals.

For a list of minimally invasive surgical procedures available at MIMIS or further information regarding the techniques, procedures, or benefits of minimally invasive surgery, visit www.mimismn.org