Single-Centre Experience of Doing Safe Total Laparoscopic Hysterectomy: Retrospective Analysis of 1200 Cases

Study Objective Assessment of safety and feasibility of total laparoscopic hysterectomy in a high-volume tertiary care centre. Design Retrospective study design. Setting Tertiary care centre: Galaxy care Hospital, Pune, India. Materials and Methods This is a retrospective observational study conducted in a tertiary care resident training hospital in Pune which is a high-volume teaching hospital. 1200 total laparoscopic hysterectomy patients between July 2013 and June 2019 operated by a group of trained surgeons were analysed, and parameters, namely demography, indication of surgery, surgical time, intra-operative blood loss, post-operative complications, duration of hospital stay, discharge and follow-up, were studied. Result(s) A total of 1200 women who underwent total laparoscopic hysterectomy for various indications were included in the study. TLH was successfully performed in all women. Mean age of women was 45 years. 72.00% had a BMI between 18.5 and 24.9, 16.08% had a BMI between 25 and 29.9, 3.92% had a BMI of > 29.9 while 8% had a BMI