General Surgery

• Adhesiolysis Treatment

• Appendectomy Surgery

• Colonoscopy Treatment

• Colostomy Reversal Surgery

• Colposcopy Surgery

• ERCP - Endoscopic Retrograde Surgery

• Gallbladder Removal Surgery

• Gallstone Removal from Common Bile Duct Surgery

• Gastrectomy Surgery

• Haemorrhoids Removal Treatment

• Hiatal Hernia Surgery

• Hydrocelectomy Surgery

• Hysterectomy Surgery

• Incisional Hernia Surgery

• Inguinal Hernia Repair Surgery

• Kidney Stone Treatment

• Kidney Transplant Surgery (With Donor)

• Laparoscopic Anti-Reflux Surgery

• Laparoscopic Nephrectomy Surgery

• Laparoscopic Ureterolithotomy Surgery

• Liver Transplant Surgery

• Myomectomy Surgery

• Nephrouretectomy & Bladder Cuff Exicision Surgery

• Ovarian Cyst Surgery

• Pyeloplasty Surgery

• Umbilical Hernia Surgery

• Upper Endoscopy Surgery

• Urethroplasty Surgery

• Varicocele Surgery

• Varicocelectectomy Surgery

• Vasectomy Surgery

Relevant information about General Surgery.

• General information

      It is common to associate General Surgery with the idea of a surgery that covers medical specialties related to every part of the human body. However it is not true; General Surgery focuses in: stomach, esophagus, colon, pancreas, liver, small bowel, intestines, bile duct and gallbladder and sometimes with the thyroid gland. General Surgery is mostly oriented to the treating of the torso. Surgeons operate using different techniques and special instruments and equipment in order to heal and investigate a determinate disease or injury that the Patient presents. General surgery procedures have a great demand all around the world, presenting better development and encouraging Results. In some cases, general surgery´s specialist deal with Patients who present problems related to the skin, breast and hernias.

Specialists in general surgery are prepared to deal with emergency situations, having to face up problems like excessive bleeding, dangerous infections, organ perforations and bowel obstructions. Other common emergency that appears frequently is the rupture of the appendix.

• Disciplines

      There are many sub-specialties that can be chosen by professionals during the performance of their medical career. Some common specialties of general surgery are developed in the list below:

• Dermatological surgery: General Surgeons can treat many problems related to the care of the skin, and the natural and health development of it. This kind of professionals generally has to deal with some special cases, for example, extracting tumors that can appear in soft tissues of the skin. They can also take care of removing suspicious moles and treat Patients that have passed through delicate situations and can present severe burns. The Results of trauma, burns or infection can be treated by using skin graft and by covering the damaged area with this complex material.

• Vascular surgery: If the Surgeon wants to specialize in this field, he will certainly have to go through a special course in order to obtain the right qualification to exercise this interesting specialty. In the majority of the cases the operations that are related with the vascular area, are performed by vascular surgery specialists. In spite of this fact, general surgeons are able to treat minor vascular disorders.

• Endocrine surgery: In the majority of the cases, general surgeons take the responsible for extracting all or a part of the thyroid and parathyroid gland, and the adrenal glands that are situated near each kidney, in the abdomen.

• Laparoscopic surgery: This kind of surgery is relatively new, and works by using small cameras and instruments which are introduced into the body through tiny incisions that are made by professionals. Mostly all the bariatric surgeries are done by using this technique. Nowadays, a great number of universities and medical institutes are training their students for being capable to solve laparoscopic surgeries.

• Colorectal surgery: Several diseases related to colon such as, ulcerative colitis, gastrointestinal bleeding and hemorrhoids are performed by general surgeons who are capable of performing this type of surgery.

• Breast surgery: The professionals who are focused in general surgery; carry out non- cosmetic surgeries which are related to breast disease. Some examples are, breast cancer, lumpectomy and mastectomy.

• Trauma surgery: As general surgeons are well trained to perform emergency situations, they are always in charge of taking the right decisions and being successful in the surgical intervention. One of the common surgical procedures that are done by general surgeons is cholecystectomy, which means the removal of the gallbladder.

• Interesting information

      During the last few years, there have been important research in the field of surgery; this has brought two new and innovative disciplines: minimally invasive surgery and robotic surgery. Minimally invasive surgery, as it names says tries to perform a less invasive surgery compared to an open surgery that is used for the same purpose. This type of surgery is always done by the use of a laparoscopic tool and technologic instruments which are manipulated by using remote-control. The benefits of this kind of surgery are that it takes a short time of recovery and they are also practised by using the minimal incision technique, which allows the surgeon to remove masses or growths. Robot surgery implies the performation of the surgery done by robots. This technique brings many advantages, for instance, the high precision in the using of instruments, smaller incisions that are made in the body of the patient, less pain produced by the incisions, a decrease of the risk of bleeding and less healing time in order to the tiny incisions. Since 2007 a renowned group of surgeons of the state of Illinois performed the first robotic pancreatectomy that end successfully; the following year the same team of professionals made an intervention in order to perform a liver transplantation, allowing the patient to leave the Hospital a few days after the procedure and in quiet good health conditions.

• Instruments used in General surgery

• Collin knife: It is used when the surgeons have to make deep and middle cuts.

• Shaft No. 4. Knife: Used for superficial but extensive cuts.

• Ring pliers: This tool can also been called removal tweezers, it is used for operations abdominal cavity.

• Doyen pliers: It is employed when it is necessary to conduct sutures.

• Academic issue

      In some countries, it is necessary to make a five or six year’s residence of general surgery in order to complete the medical school. This is an important fact, because it shows us how significant is for Doctors and surgeons to make a deep study of what is related to general surgery. In the UK for example, students of surgery can start their training after five years of being in a medical school; if they complete successfully the three years core training programme, they will be able to enter to a renowned organisation that is called Royal College of Surgeons. In this college, if the surgeon takes an examination and passes the test, he/she will receive the title of “mister” instead of Doctor. This has been a tradition since hundreds of years in the United Kingdom, and its importance makes us aware of the magnitude and quality of the professionals.