General and Digestive Surgery
- About the Observatory
- Team
- Units and benefits
- Diseases and procedures
- Research
- Teaching activity
- Related information
About the Observatory
The General Surgery Service is responsible for the surgical treatment of the digestive system and its appendages, the abdominal wall, the endocrine system and surgical disorders of the skin and soft parts.
Since 2020, it has been working as a territorial unit with the Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau.
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Date of update 10/05/2023
Head of Service
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Ion Lupu
general surgery
Head of Service
Members
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Jose Maria Puigcercos Fuste
general surgery
healthcare coordinator doctor
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Miguel Angel Morales Garcia
general surgery
service coordinator doctor
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Martha Genoveva Toapanta Valencia
general surgery
specialist doctor
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Sergio Lopez Rodriguez
general surgery
specialist doctor
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Berta Gonzalo Prats
general surgery
specialist doctor
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Date of update 10/05/2023
Units and benefits
Outpatient assistance to external consultations
- Visits
- Control and monitoring of all general surgery patients
- Care room
- Qualified consultation of Proctology
- Functional explorations of proctology and treatment of anal intra-epithelial neoplasia, within the General Surgery Service at Sant Pau Hospital.
Surgical assistance
- Conventional hospitalization
- Control and follow-up of all patients undergoing general surgery and requiring admission
- Treatment of patients with surgical pathology from emergencies
- Interconsultations of other services for pathologies specific to the surgical specialty
- Surgery unit without admission
- High resolution surgery – of the pathology of the skin and soft parts
Urgent assistance
- Continuous care coverage of urgent surgical pathology
- Urgent surgical activity on a continuous basis within the Joint Service of General Surgery Hospital de Sant Pau
Surgical procedures included
Surgery of the digestive tract and its appendages
- Biliary surgery – Benign diseases of the gallbladder via laparoscopy
- proctology
- anal fissure
- anal fistula
- Hemorrhoidal disease
- Follow-up of anal intra-epithelial neoplasia
- Anal functional disorders
- Abdominal wall surgery
- Inguinal-crural hernia, treatment by open or laparoscopy
- Umbilical, ventral, epigastric hernia
- events
- Surgery of the endocrine system
- Surgery of the thyroid gland
- Skin and soft tissue surgery
- Benign disorders of the skin and subcutaneous tissue
- Emergency surgery
- Urgent pathology of the gallbladder, acute appendicitis, proctological and of the abdominal wall.
- Treatment of urgent skin and soft tissue complications (abscesses).
- Treatment of spontaneous pneumothorax.
- Surgical treatment within the Joint Service of General Surgery Hospital de Sant Pau
- Complex benign pathology or in a complex patient
- Malignant pathology of the digestive tract and its appendages
- Complex emergency surgical pathology
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Date of update 10/05/2023
Research
- Prospective research project on ambulatory cholecystectomy
- Research projects within the Joint Service of General Surgery Hospital de Sant Pau: NIA study (Drs. Catot/Lopez), morbid obesity (Dr. Gonzalo).
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Date of update 10/05/2023
Teaching
- MIR2 General Surgery Hospital de Sant Pau, external rotation
- MIR Family Medicine – rotation and organization of minor surgery course
- 6th year students, Faculty of Medicine, University of Barcelona
- Proctology courses on HAL/RAR technique in the treatment of hemorrhoidal disease and Permacol technique in the treatment of anal fistulas
- ASECMA / SCCMA Master of Major Ambulatory Surgery, Co-Director Dr. Puigcercos
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Date of update 10/05/2023
