ENDOSCOPIC THORACIC SYMPATHECTOMY
ENDOSCOPIC THORACIC SYMPATHECTOMY OVERVIEW
Endoscopic thoracic sympathectomy is a surgical procedure generally performed by a thoracic surgeon (a surgeon that opens the chest cavity) through a small pencil hole incision between the ribs. A small endoscope is inserted into the chest cavity and small instruments are inserted through the oriface of the endoscope to reach the sympathetic nervous system. The sympathetic nervous system which controls the neurochemicals responsible for sweating, carries essential chemicals through tiny nerves to various sweat glands throughout the body. The sympathetic nervous system is a delicate system of nerves that controls sweating.
Once thesse tiny nerves are located either in the T1, T2, T3 or T4 regions (the higher the T1 region, the higher up in the thoracic cavity these nerves go), they are severed by either cauterization or a scissors. In either event, these nerves are cut and once they are cut, sweating to the hands, face, feet, chest, head and other areas essential for body cooling, will never work again. Your sweating problems in one area are over, but you will begin a new nightmare of sweating in other areas to compensate for the loss of sweating in your hands, face, head and neck regions which make up over 30% of your body's thermoregulatory area. You will notice immense sweating in below the nipple line and your buttox. Your hands will be dry all the time. You will not be able to pick up a piece of paper or carry a cardboard box without feeling like a piece of chalk is being scraped against a wall. You may have many other problems as well as a result of this endoscopic thoracic sympathectomy.
Endoscopic thoracic sympathectomy is so bad, it should be illegalized. Many surgeons are being sued as a result of the butchery that is going on. Dr. Fischel is one of them.