Added: 01/24/2006 |
The Range of Diseases Treated by General Surgery is Extremely WideIn opinion of many doctors, general surgery is one of the most complex areas of medicine. For work in this area it is necessary to have an extensive scope of knowledge and skills, ability quickly to be guided and keep calmness in an extreme situation. The sphere of diseases treated by general surgery includes internal and external traumas, various kinds of wounds, pathologies of gastroenteric path, and primary operations at various diseases.
The majorities of diseases treated by general surgery are shown suddenly and demand rendering of urgent medical aid. Therefore, most frequently general surgery jobs settle down in branch of the urgent help in each clinic. In the branch of urgent medical aid the patients are injured in the result of car incidents, accidents act or at sharp attacks of diseases of not clear etiology. For example, enough frequently in a number of diseases treated by general surgery are included such diseases as sharp inflammation of an appendix; presence of alien subjects in the stomach, throats, gullet or an intestines; sharp poisonings; perforation of stomach ulcer or duodenal gut.
Rendering aid during the first urgent help at various kinds of traumas and pathologies is carried out of general surgery specialists. It is necessary to note that more often the group of general surgery specialists includes surgeons who specialize in different areas of surgery. For example, in case of urgent labor midwife or the surgeon specializing in the field of obstetrics and gynecology can render the urgent help to a parturient woman. However, in most cases each surgeon possesses all necessary skills for carrying out of any urgent operation.
One of the most complex aspects of general surgery is a necessity in rendering of qualified urgent medical aid. Thus, general surgery specialists should put in the shortest term the exact diagnosis and define tactics of further treatment. However, as the range of diseases treated by general surgery is rather extensive, it is rather difficult to define diagnosis quickly and precisely. Therefore, the number of requirements, shown to general surgery specialists, includes an ability to estimate gravity of disease quickly and objectively, to reveal the basic symptoms of illness and operatively to make decision on the further treatment of patient.
After carrying out of primary operation and rendering of urgent help, in most cases the patient goes for further treatment to the specialized clinic or profile branch of clinic. Thus, further treatment is carried out by the profile expert. For example, after rendering of the urgent help at urgent labor, patient is located in postnatal branch where necessary treatment and care for mother and newborn child will be appointed by doctor-gynecologist and pediatrist.
However, it is necessary to note that competent and qualified medical aid rendered of general surgery in most cases considerably influences terms and efficiency of further treatment. Thus, quality rendering of urgent medical aid and efficiency of actions of general surgery specialists is rather important factors for the prompt treatment of patient.
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