General Surgery

Dr. Chithanand, MS

Dr. Kannan, MS

The department of general surgery has now become a Secondary referral center. Many patients are referred to Paalana, for state-of-the-art modern management (in operation theatres, surgical intensive care unit, & wards). Apart from those requiring routine operations, quite a number of patients with Acute Severe Pancreatitis, Septic Abdomen, Complex thyroid diseases & parathyroid problems, are treated In the intensive care unit, in addition surgical and medical intensive care, the patients are administered advanced parenteral nutrition via sophisticated types of tubes inserted into major blood vessels by special techniques.

Emergency services including:

• Conventional (open) as well as laparoscopic surgery for gall bladder, hiatus hernia, spleen, appendix, hernias etc.,
• Major surgery for pancreas, hepatobiliary system, breast, thyroid and other endocrine glands, cranioplasties, abdominal trauma, fistula, chest and esophagus surgery, all types of cancer surgeries for mouth, lungs, intestine, thyroid and other parts of the body.
• Emergency surgery for injuries, gastrointestinal bleeding, perforation, peritonititis, appendicitis, intestinal obstructions etc.,
• Patients with critical illness such as acute pancreatitis and enterocutaneous fistula as well as gastrointestinal bleeding, perforative peritonititis. Those undergoing supra-major operations are managed by a modern surgical intensive care unit manned by well-trained intensivists.