The Acute Patient Surgery Unit is made up of 5 female surgeons, Dra. Andrea Campos Serra, Dr. Heura Llaquet Bayó, Dra. Anna Muñoz Campaña, Dra. Raquel Gràcia Roman and Dra. Giulia Vitiello. Treat patients with abdominal or proctological pathology or urgent trauma, require or not, a surgical intervention.
Urgent surgical interventions represent the 45% of surgical activity of the Service, covered from 8 a.m. to 15 p.m. by the Acute Patient Surgery Unit, and the rest of the time by the on-call team of the General Surgery Service and the corresponding Digestive System.
The Unit attends to between 10.000 and 12.000 patients annually in the field of Emergency and almost 1.000 patients are urgently treated. Regarding polytrauma patients, 600 polytrauma codes are activated per year, requiring surgical intervention by the Service between 20 and 30 patients per year.
Urgent conditions that may require surgical management are very diverse, including: intra-abdominal inflammatory/infectious pathology; intestinal occlusion; intestinal perforation; intestinal ischemia; hernias; acute proctological pathology and traumatic abdominal, thoracic or pelvic pathology.
At the same time, the Acute Patient Unit is responsible for the monitoring and management of patients in the Critical Care Area who require a tracheostomy and the management of open abdomens and entero-atmospheric fistulas.
Portfolio of services
- Inflammatory/infectious pathology
- Acute appendicitis
- Acute cholecystitis
- Acute diverticulitis of the colon
- Acute small bowel diverticulitis
- Mild acute pancreatitis
- Intra-abdominal abscesses
- Intestinal occlusion
- Intestinal perforation
- Intestinal ischemia
- Complicated hernias
- Acute proctological pathology
- Perianal abscess
- anal fissure
- Complicated perianal fistula
- Traumatic pathology
- Pleural drainage in patients with pneumo/hemothorax
- Tracheostomy in a critical patient
- open abdomen
- Entero-atmospheric fistula