The following is a list of conditions and surgical treatments provided by Dr. Raja Salem at Capital Health.
Acute Care Surgery
A
Abdominal compartment syndrome
Abdominal wall contusion/trauma (blunt and penetrating)
Abdominal wall reconstruction
Acalculous cholecystitis
Acute aortic dissection and its complications
Acute cholecystitis
Acute colonic pseudo-obstruction (Olgivie’s syndrome)
Acute pancreatitis
Adhesiolysis
Anal fistula
Anemia, due to acute blood loss
Aneurysm repair (endovasular and open)
Angioplasty and stenting of upper extremity and lower extremity vascular disease
Aortic aneurysm
Arterial and venous access
B
Blood transfusion and massive transfusion protocol
Blunt cardiac injury
Boerhaave’s syndrome
Breast abcesses
Burns
C
Chemical esophageal injuries
Chest wall contusion/trauma (blunt and penetrating)
Cholecystitis, acute and chronic, calculous and acalculous
Cholecystitis, ischemic
Clostridium difficile colitis
Colectomy
Colitis
Colon cancer
Colon surgery
Colonic volvulus
Colorectal surgery
Complex pelvic fracture with internal hemorrhage
Concussion
Crohn’s disease
D
Damage control surgery
Descending thoracic aortic aneurysm
Diaphragmatic injuries
Diverticular disease of the colon
E
Emergency Department thoracotomy
Emergency surgical airway management
Endotracheal and tracheostomy tube exchange
Enteral nutrition and nutritional support in the critically ill
Epiglotitis (acute airway compromise)
Esophageal cancer (surgical nutritional support)
Esophageal varices (hemorrhage control)
Extremity compartment syndrome
F
Femoral hernia
Flail chest
G
Gallbladder
Gallstones
Gallstone ileus
Gallstone pancreatitis
Gangrene of lower extremities
Gas gangrene
Gastrointestinal hemorrhage
H
Hematuria (acute)
Hemodialysis access
Hepatic abscess
Hepatic resection
Hernia - all types
I
Iliac aneurysm
Intestinal ileus
Incisional, epigastric, umbilical hernia
Inflammatory bowel disease
Inguinal hernia
Injuries to small and large bowel
Injuries to rectum
Intraabdominal abscess
J
Jugular venous access
K
L
Laparoscopic appendectomy
Liver laceration
Lower extremity arteriogram
M
Mallory-Weiss syndrome
Management of extremity compartment syndrome
Mastitis
Maternal and fetal traumatic injury
Maternal hemorrhage management
Mediastinal/neck mass causing compression
Mesenteric insufficiency (mesenteric stenosis)
N
Necrotizing cellulitis and fasciitis
Necrotizing skin and soft tissue infection
O
Open wound management
Oropharyngeal and facial swelling/trauma
P
Pancreatic abscess
Pancreatic and duodenal injuries
Pancreatitis, acute and chronic
Pancreatitis, iIschemic
Peptic ulcer disease
Peptic ulcer disease (gastric and duodenal)
Peripheral vascular disease
Peritonitis
Pulmonary contusion
Q
R
Rectal surgery
Renal laceration/contusion
Resuscitation and surgical therapy in HELLP syndrome
Retroperitoneal injuries: renal and ureteral traumatic injuries
Rib fractures
S
Skin grafting
Small and large bowel obstruction
Spigelian, lumbar, and obturator hernia
Splenectomy for hematologic disorders, tumors, cysts and abscesses
Splenic injuries and splenic salvage procedures
Splenic laceration/contusion
Spontaneous hemothorax
Spontaneous pneumothorax
Surgical site infection management
T
Traumatic hemothorax
Traumatic injury (RMC- Level II Trauma Center)
Traumatic pneumothorax
Traumatic spinal cord injury and management
U
Upper airway obstruction
V
Venous angioplasty and stenting