Conditions and Procedures
Trauma surgeons at University Hospital in Madison, Wisconsin, treat patients with emergent medical needs for these conditions and more.
Trauma Conditions
- Blunt: Motor vehicle crash, falls, all-terrain vehicle crashes, assaults
- Penetrating: Gunshot wounds, stab wounds, farm implement injuries
Trauma Procedures
- Trauma evaluation (level 1 and level 2)
- Exploratory laparotomy
- Emergency thoracotomy
- Resuscitation
- Chest wall stabilization
Burn Conditions
- Thermal burns
- Chemical burns
- Frostbite
- Inhalation injury
Burn Procedures
- Skin excision
- Skin grafting
Acute Care/Emergency General Surgery Conditions
- Appendicitis
- Diverticulitis (complicated)
- Cholecystitis
- Perforated bowel
- Perforated ulcer
- Abdominal abscess
- Incarcerated hernia
- Bowel obstruction
Acute Care/Emergency General Surgery Procedures
- Appendectomy
- Cholecystectomy
- Bowel resection
- Ostomy creation
- Feeding tubes
- Tracheostomy
- Open hernia repair
Surgical Critical Care Conditions
- Post-operative care
- Sepsis
- Respiratory failure
- Multi-organ failure
- Coagulopathy
Surgical Critical Care Procedures
- Tracheostomy (open and percutaneous)
- Pleural drainage catheters
- Ventilator management
- Temporary vascular access (central venous lines, dialysis lines, arterial lines, swan-ganz catheters)
- Bronchoscopy
- Percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy tubes (PEGs)