In THQ hospital Noor Pur Thal the department of General Surgery perform surgeries 24x7. General Surgery Department provides general and specialized surgical services to patient suffering from wide range of natural and developed conditions. The department of surgery will provide sympathetic and high class patient care, train future generations of surgical leader and conduct research in a mutual environment which embraces range and promotes completeness.
Aims and Objectives
- Direct observation of supervised clinical care
- Discussion of relevant patient care problems on rounds
- Improve the Health Care of patients
Services
- Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy
- Hernia Surgery (open & laparoscopic)
- Gallbladder surgery
- Stapled Hemorrhoidectomy
- Appendectomy (open & laparoscopic)
- Laparotomy
Standard Operative Procedures (SOPs)
- Signing declaring the OT as restricted area and identification of person allowed in the OT
- Sterilization and identification of sterilized OT equipment
- Separation and transport of dirty linen
- Pre-operative assessment and instructions
- Routine equipment check and preparation
- Annual review of functioning equipment in line with the service offered by the OT
- Transportation of clients/patient from the ward to the OT and back
- Transferring of patient onto a stretcher/chair from within the OT and not allowing a stretcher/chair from outside into the OT
- Admission to the operation department
- Identification of clients/patients
- Identification of operation site
- Recovery
- Inoculation injury
- Staff protection against exhaust from anesthetic gases
- Postoperative care
- Handover procedures for pre-operative and postoperative clients/patients
- Diathermy use
- Tourniquet use
- Swab, needle and instrument count
- Infected clients/patients
Future Plans
- Improved forecasting of length of stay and other aspects of hospital performance
- The benefits of subspecialisation and methods to reduce the impact of this on access to services
- How hospitals can be staffed in new and imaginative ways
- The development of flexible approaches to planning hospitals
- How to manage change effectively