It is an undeniable fact that the vast majority of people enjoy a fulsome life driven by good health and physical fitness. It is also a fact that, at some point in the lives of everyone, something will ail or debilitate, perhaps briefly, or maybe for some prolonged period of time.
There is all manner of reasons why our health may become negatively challenged. It could be genetics, or bacterial or viral infection, or physical trauma. The only thing every person can be sure of is that their health, at some point, will be challenged.
At these moments in life professional help is sought from a medical practitioner. Most of the things that ail are easily treated, often through prescribed drugs or straight forward physical treatment. In today’s world, infections and disease are routinely addressed and cured, sprains, strains and broken bones are fixed at medical facilities across the world in their tens of thousands.
On occasions, for some, a negative health issue may not be so easily addressed. Other, more serious, or complicated conditions may require surgical intervention. Just as with rudimentary medical care, surgical procedures can be routine and straight forward. However, they can also be complex and challenging.
Requiring surgery is not an enviable position to be in, patients can become anxious and stressed. Comfort can be drawn from the knowledge that, as a patient, you are going to be cared for by highly trained experts in their particular fields of medicine. And there is no better assembled team in which to trust your wellbeing than that at the Samitivej Hospital Surgery Clinic in Bangkok.
Facilitating the internationally trained surgical team is Samitivej Hospital’s commitment to maintaining state-of-the-art equipment and technology. Such as modern bone mineral density (BMD) measuring machines, computer-controlledX-Ray and spinal CT scanners, mammogram, and ultrasound machines. Additionally, great thought has gone into the creation of the surgical suites. Each one is private, meticulously clean and designed to be stress reducing.
Common Surgical Procedures
Bone fractures can be simple or complex, with the more complex breakages often requiring surgery. The clinics’ orthopedic surgeons are well trained and versed in repairing complex, compound fractures with an enviable level of success.
Repairing sprains, strains and dislocations can also be complex, and may require delicate surgery by a skilled hand. The same is true of all spinal surgery, such as the repair of a herniated disc, spinal fusion procedures and laminectomies.
The team also conducts corrective skeletal surgical procedures that address deformities in children, such issues are not uncommon in the feet and ankles of the young. It is with great skill that the team’s pediatric surgeons have rightly gained their rightful position as world leaders in their field.
As reported by the World Health Organization (WHO), cases of cancer and tumorous growth are increasing across the world. These may be malignant or benign but will require skilled medical intervention, that often being surgical.
The Samitivej Hospital Surgery Clinic is a leader in tackling the medical challenges posed by the globalincrease in the number of cancers and tumorous growth. By being at the forefront of pioneering and cutting-edge surgical techniques and procedures, coupled with their commitment to embracing today’s groundbreaking technology, allows the clinic to achieve unprecedented success in the surgical intervention in combating cancer and tumorous health issues.
Injury by burning is an extremely traumatic experience, and victims often require surgery as part of their ongoing treatment plan. Invariably, burns victims will require reconstructive surgery. This is a highly skilled discipline conducted by the specialist surgeons at the clinic. There are a number of aesthetic surgery techniques which the clinic can employ as part of the reconstructive process.
Split-thickness skin grafts (STSGs)are now a common procedure. The surgeon takes a thin layer of healthy skin from an undamaged part of the body which is then used to cover an area of damaged or missing skin. It is then often treated with antibiotic ointment.
Flap surgery also involves removing healthy, undamaged skin. Although with this method the whole thickness of the skin is removed with an intact blood supply and applied to the damaged site. In addition to the skin, a flap may include fat tissue and muscle.
Another surgical technique is excision. This procedure is designed to remove the necrotic, or dying, tissue, whilst preserving the dermis. Where possible this will be done as a tangential excision, thus preserving the dermis. Alternatively, there is the fascial excision. This is a more straight forward, and quicker procedure, but it can result in lymphedema and contour defects.
At the clinic there are numerous other areas that may require intervention by the surgical team, including pulmonary and cardiac issues, the bladder, renal and urinary tract, hernias, hemorrhoids, and vasectomies, all are conducted with skill, and with the patient’s wellbeing at forefront of each and every treatment procedure.
Modern Surgical Techniques
With the advances in modern surgical techniques, many of the procedures carried out by the center can be conducted vis the laparoscopic method. This is often referred to as being minimally invasive surgery. This method of surgery causes less trauma, reduces healing time, and improves post-surgery aesthetics.
The laparoscopic technique involves making small incisions in the area of operation. Via these small cuts the surgeon can insert a narrow, flexible tube with a tiny camera at its tip, this is the laparoscope. The camera allows the surgeon to see the body’s internals on an external screen.
The laparoscope can be used singularly as a diagnostics tool, or in conjunction with other instruments which the surgeon inserts through additional small cuts. The combination of the tiny surgical instruments and the camera allow the surgeon to conduct many delicate surgical procedures without the patient having to endure the trauma of more traditional open surgery. The clinic’s surgeons are also able to use this method of surgery on an unborn fetus in the womb. Conducting surgery in this way has led to more babies being born strong and healthy.
Although surgery is never going to seen as a pleasurable experience, a highly trained, skillful team of surgeons coupled with the very best in medical facilities does lead to less patient anxiety and stress, which is better for the patient’s psychological wellbeing and physical recovery. Nowhere is this better exhibited than at Samitivej Hospital’s Surgical Center in Bangkok.
