Surgery Emergency
What is Emergency Surgery?
Dr Sherry Salter provides emergency General Surgery operations for patients who need general surgery urgently rather than on a planned list. Dr Salter completed a Trauma and Acute Surgery Fellowship at Auckland City Hospital in New Zealand in 2012.
Emergency General Surgery involves the conditions that bring people to an Emergency Department, such as the sudden onset of abdominal pain due to appendicitis, gallstones, inflammation of the gallbladder (cholecystitis), a blocked or perforated bowel, an abscess or a hernia that has become obstructed.
If you or a family member has been admitted under Dr Salter, the sections below explain what happens next.
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Emergency operations are performed under general anaesthetic and usually using keyhole surgery. The duration of surgery depends on the diagnosis. The patient wakes up in the recovery room with a nurse at their bedside.
Once the operation is finished, Dr Salter will call the patient's next of kin to explain how the operation progressed. Dr Salter will then review the patient on the ward to explain the operation findings and the recovery process. Your GP has a discharge letter from her when you leave the hospital.
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Return to work, driving and lifting all depends on the operation findings, the patient’s medical history prior to surgery and their recovery process.