GENERAL SURGERY

The field of general surgery is one surgical specialty where the physicians focus on abdominal regions like small intestine, stomach, esophagus, large intestine, appendix, gallbladder, liver, bile ducts, pancreas, and most of the time the thyroid gland is also included. These surgeons also deal with diseases like skin, soft tissues, breast, trauma, hernias, peripheral artery diseases along with endoscopic procedures like colonoscopy and gastroscopy.There are several scopes for general surgeons as they can sub-specialize in several of the following disciplines:

Several Scopes for General Surgeons

Trauma Surgery

The complete responsibility with a trauma care surgeon is to deal with almost all kinds of critical emergency surgery. Some of the surgeons receive advanced training in critical surgery and specialty surgical surgery. General surgeons are trained in such a manner that they can do emergency surgery. Bleeding, bowel syndromes, organ perforations, and infections are the key problems they tackle. One of the most common surgical procedures conducted worldwide is removal of gall bladder through surgery. This is mostly done electively, however, if the gall bladder is acutely inflamed, it may require emergency surgery. Infections along with appendix rupture and small bowel obstructions are some of the common obstructions.

Surgery through laparoscopy

This is new specialty in surgery that deals with minimal techniques of access using small instruments and a camera inserted through 3 to approximately 15mm incisions. A new form of surgery using robotics is now evolving. Using the robotic technique gallbladders, appendices and malfunctioning colons can also be removed. General surgeons also remove hernias using laparoscopy. Bariatric surgery can also be done laparoscopically and this surgery reduces wound complications in patients with obesity. General physicians at Sri balaji Hospital are trained in advanced laparoscopic surgery.There are several other kinds of general surgery a physician gets the scope to work on. In Sri Balaji Multispecialty Hospital the general physicians have been trained in diagnosing, preoperative, operative, followed by post operative managing of the patients. These surgeons have full knowledge of anatomy, intensive and emergency care, metabolism, wound healing, resuscitation, shock, physiology, pathology, nutrition, and immunology.The general surgeon gets training to provide surgery and medications for the whole patient. This would involve making diagnosis, pre surgical, surgical, and post surgical managing of he patients along with surgical treatment procedure of:

Alimentary tract
Abdomen, pelvis and the constituents inside
Soft tissues, breast and skin
And the endocrine system

Sri Balaji Hospitals is a 35 bedded Multispeciality hospital located on the highway in Nolambur Chennai.

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Sri Balaji Hospitals (A Unit Of Sree Jaya Surya Hospital Private Limited) No;318/3b2 Chennai By-Pass Service Road , S.R.R Nagar. Nolambur. Chennai-600037