Endoscopic surgery method has been named by world medicine
In 2024, at an international conference at the National Convention Center, I talked with an Indian doctor and learned that he went to Vietnam to study endoscopic surgery. "Dr Luong - do you know him? That is a teacher I really respect. I decided to go to Vietnam to be taught endoscopic surgery by Mr. Luong. His method is very special, I have never seen before".
Associate Professor, Tran Ngoc Luong, former Director of the Central Endocrinology Hospital, is the first person in Vietnam and the world to successfully research and implement a unique thyroid endoscopic surgery technique, making the international medical community admire him.
A breakthrough in the thyroid endoscopic surgery method of Associate Professor, Dr. Tran Ngoc Luong is the use of the armpits and chest with small joints on the skin. These stains are 0.5 - 1cm in size, disappear after a few months and can be easily covered by clothes. Meanwhile, open surgery (old), scars are usually 8 to 12 cm long on the patient's neck.
This method is simple, fast, safe, effective and very cost-effective. Simple because you only need to use a regular abdominal endoscopy surgical tool, no need for specialized tools. This tool is currently available in all provincial and municipal general hospitals. Surgery using this technique costs only 1/25 compared to other countries in the region. For example, a thyroid cut in Korea or Singapore costs about 8,000 - 10,000 USD, but at the Central Endocrinology Hospital it only takes 30 minutes at 300 - 400 USD.
"This method can be applied to all different thyroid diseases such as: Tuberculosis, basedow, thyroid cancer; its advantage is that it can remove large gums without having to cut any neck muscles first. Not only has scientific significance, the technique of endoscopic thyroid surgery brings high socio-economic efficiency, demonstrated in opening a new direction in the treatment of thyroid diseases" - Associate Professor. Luong shared.
Associate Professor, Tran Ngoc Luong started transferring this technique to a hospital in Malaysia and received training and transfer of thyroid endoscopy technique since 2009. To date, more than 300 professors and doctors from countries in the region and around the world have come to the Central Endocrinology Hospital to study this surgical technique.
Currently, the technique has been transferred to many countries in the region and in the world such as: Australia, Portugal, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand, Pakistan, India, Turkey, Saudi Arabia... Endoscopic surgery method for treating thyroid diseases of Associate Professor, Dr. Tran Ngoc Luong has been named by world medicine as " Dr. Luong Endoscopic Surgery Technology". Every year, Associate Professor, Dr. Tran Ngoc Luong and his colleagues at the Central Endocrinology Hospital were invited by many hospitals in the country, region and the world to perform and teach this method.
As soon as we talked to us, Associate Professor. Luong had just entered the operating room. He said that each surgery is quick, but there are many patients. Perhaps, he spent more time in the operating room than at home. That is not to mention the times when I had to weigh my brain before a serious illness, determined to save the patient's life.
"The number of thyroid patients is increasing, the majority of patients are poor, how to have a surgery that is less expensive, reducing the cost burden on them, those things urge me to always find new methods in thyroid surgery" - Associate Professor Luong confided.
The pressure is huge because I am the first person to try this technique in Vietnam and there are few people in the world who do it. Whether I can do it or not, whether I can ensure patient safety or not... those questions keep floating in my mind as the days begin" - Associate Professor. Luong recalled the time of performing the first surgery using the new method.
The heart of doctors is to "tip" to succeed
I have witnessed aphthalmic surgery by Associate Professor. Luong, in the operating room, was surrounded by doctors from many different countries. On the first morning of their attendance at the hospital, doctors Eminov Vusal Latif - Head of the Surgery Department, Central Hospital of the Ministry of Home Affairs of Azerbaijan; Vallam Karthik Chandra - oncologist, Medicover Hospital India and doctor Pavithra Shanmugam - Consultant, Apollo proton Cancer Center India were directly followed by urological surgeries with Associate Professor. Salary.
Doctor Pavithra Shanmugam said that this was her first time coming to Vietnam and she was very surprised by her professional qualifications, as well as modern medical equipment in Vietnam. Dr. Luong and the Vietnamese doctors "ted her the hand to do the job" to help her quickly access all the techniques of the surgery.
In India, I had the opportunity to learn the thyroid endoscopy method Dr.Luong from my professor, who was also trained in Dr. Luongs technique. I have also learned about this process for a short time in India, but when I attended a direct training course at the Central Endocrinology Hospital with the help of Professor Luong, Dr. Hiep, Dr. Son... during hands-on surgeries on patients with thyroid disease, I learned a lot of experience and now I am ready to return home to do the "Dr. Luong" method with what I have learned here" - the female doctor shared.
Doctor Vallam Karthik Chandra at Medicover Hospital in India also shared that the endoscopic thyroid surgery technique of Vietnamese doctors has many advantages compared to the region and the world. What impressed me was that patients only have to pay a very low cost for applying this method compared to other methods, said the doctor.
When asked about the decision to go to Vietnam to learn the thyroid endoscopy technique "Dr Luong" instead of other techniques, Dr. Pavithra said that because this thyroid endoscopy technique is not regularly performed in India, and because it is superior such as low cost, shortened surgery time, quick recovery, and little damage, she decided to spend time in Vietnam to participate in the training course.
After each training course, foreign students have been granted a certificate of completion of the thyroid endoscopic surgery course. The more important thing that foreign doctors receive is the most superior thyroid surgery technique in the world, taught by a simple, loyal Vietnamese teacher.
"For the medical profession, you have to be passionate, without passion you can't do great things. People are just like that for the rest of their lives. And having a doctor's heart for the patient, that is the best way to take care of the patient" - these words, Dr. Luong always told his students when teaching them techniques, became a "tips" for him and his students to succeed.
Associate Professor, Tran Ngoc Luong was born in 1961 in Nam Dinh, is a resident doctor. In 1987, he worked at Bach Mai Hospital with the specialty of abdominal surgery. At the end of 2001, he worked at the Central Endocrinology Hospital. In 2019, he was awarded the record "The person with the most scientific research on endoscopic surgery techniques applied, transferred, and trained domestically and internationally". In 2020, Associate Professor, Dr. Tran Ngoc Luong was awarded the title of Labor Hero of the renovation period.
