Secretariat
Branch:
32 325 52 42
Doctor's
Duty Office:
32 325 52 97
Nursing
duty:
32 325 52 41
About us
The Ward deals with comprehensive life saving of patients, a large part of whom are transferred from other hospitals, which proves the high quality of treatment and the referral character of the Ward. This applies in particular to patients with diseases of the bile ducts and tumors of the pancreatic-duodenal field. Annually, the department performs nearly 1,000 surgeries, approximately 300 retrograde cholangiopancreatography procedures, and 300 diagnostic and therapeutic endoscopies, both of the upper and lower gastrointestinal tracts. Patients are supervised by qualified nursing staff and expert doctors-specialists who constantly improve their competences.
Head of the Department, specialist in general surgery, vascular surgery and angiology
Ward nurse
mgr pielęgniarstwa, mgr pedagogiki z logopedią, specjalista w dziedzinie pielęgniarstwa chirurgicznego.
Specializations
The most typical procedures performed by the department are presented below:
- Treatment of acute conditions in surgery: peritonitis, hemorrhage into the gastrointestinal tract, obstruction of the gastrointestinal tract.
- Surgery of the pancreas, liver and bile ducts. The department performs pancreatic resections due to cancer (pancreatoduodenectomies, peripheral resections, and total pancreatic resections). We also perform anatomical liver resections (right or left hemihepatectomies) due to metastatic tumors from colorectal cancer. We also perform resections of the liver and bile ducts due to bile duct tumors.
- Bowel surgery procedures. Most colon surgeries are performed because of colon cancer. In selected cases, during the primary colorectal tumor excision, we also perform a simultaneous excision of the metastases.
- Surgery of the stomach and duodenum: We perform operations of total or partial gastrectomy due to cancer of this organ. We also perform a small number of operations due to gastric and duodenal ulcers, including vagotomy and pyloroplasty.
- Treatment of abdominal wall hernias with the use of meshes, as well as internal hernias, with particular emphasis on hiatal hernia
- Treatment of multi-organ injuries - together with the Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care and the Department of Reconstruction Surgery of the Locomotor System.
- Vascular procedures: performing arteriovenous anastomoses for hemodialysis, setting up permanent vascular ports for chemotherapy, removing varicose veins of the lower limbs, vascular reconstructions performed during complex oncological operations: e.g. reconstructions of the portal vein and superior mesenteric artery during resection of the pancreatic head with into vessels, peripheral femoral-popliteal pontics in case of ischemia of the lower limbs.
- Endocrine surgery procedures: removal of the thyroid gland, adrenal glands, parathyroid glands, hormonally active tumors of the pancreas: e.g. insulinomas.
- Urology procedures, especially in the case of large kidney tumors infiltrating adjacent organs and large vessels, as well as sparing procedures - partial kidney resections.
- Procedures in the field of mammary gland surgery, including breast-conserving procedures.
- We also perform the sentinel node biopsy procedure both in breast cancer and in the treatment of melanoma
- Minimally invasive procedures: - Laparoscopic procedures: the most common procedures are laparoscopic cholecystectomy and exploratory laparoscopy for histopathological verification of tumors and assessment of their operability.
- Endoscopic procedures are performed in the ward using a modern video-endoscopic set with the possibility of archiving the diagnosed pathological images. We perform the following types of endoscopy:
- Gastroscopy with stopping bleeding from peptic ulcers, esophageal varices.
- Duodenoscopy with ERCP: with drainage of the bile ducts, evacuation of deposits, prosthetic bile ducts. If internal drainage is not possible, we perform external drainage of the bile ducts under ultrasound guidance.
- Colonoscopy
- Endoscopic feeding shunts (PEG and PEJ)
- Opening the esophagus and large intestine in inoperable, obstructive tumors of these organs
- Each type of endoscopy can be combined with polypectomy, i.e. removal of polyps from both the upper and lower digestive tract.
