General surgery
a surgical specialty that focuses on abdominal contents including esophagus, stomach, small bowel, colon, liver, pancreas, gallbladderand bile ducts, and often the thyroid gland (depending on local reference patterns). They also deal with diseases involving the skin, breast, soft tissue, trauma, peripheral vascular surgery and hernias.
A surgeon is a doctor who performs operations that involve cutting into someone's body in order to repair or remove damaged or diseased parts
GVM International's Department of Surgery is one of the largest and most experienced surgical practices in the world. It is comprised of board-certified surgeons who provide evaluation and treatment for a full range of general surgery conditions. Surgeons are part of the team of doctors who work together to solve patients' problems. Collaboration brings a range of ideas, knowledge and experience to bear on a problem, ultimately providing better answers than any single physician could provide individually.
Reasons for general surgery consultations:
- Non-specific abdominal pain
- Nausea and vomitting
- Partial-complete mechanical bowel obstruction
- Incarcarated hernia
- Hemorrhoidal disease
- GI tract bleeding
- Cholecystitis
- Pancreatitis
- Assault
- Traffic accident
- Stab wound
- Gunshot wound
- Low hemoglobin
- Fall from height
- Perianal pain
- Preoperative evaluation
- Foreign body ingestion
- Colostomy care
- Wound dehiscence
- Areolar drainage
- Postoperative follow-up
- Hollow viscus perforation
- Blunt abdominal trauma
- Diarrhea
- Acute appendicitis
- Pilonidal sinus
- Splenic infarct
- ITP