Surgery and Surgical Nursing

General Surgery and Surgical Infections

General surgery is a surgical specialty that mainly emphasizes on abdominal contents including esophagus, stomach, small bowel, colon, liver, pancreas, gallbladder, appendix and bile ducts, and often the thyroid gland. They also deal with diseases involving the skin, breast, soft tissue, trauma, peripheral vascular surgery and hernias and perform endoscopic procedures such as gastroscopy and colonoscopy. A surgical infection is such which requires surgical treatment and has developed before or as a complication of surgical treatment.