General Surgery

NAME: Dr. M. Ramula, M.D

EMAIL: ramuladurai@gmail.com

Contact Number :9443639127

The Department of General Surgery is core surgical department that aims to provide highest quality of surgical skills and recent surgical updates. This is fulfilled with the help of latest technology, dedicated staff and consistent training. The department comprises of 4 units with mixture of staff with surgical speciality and super-speciality like urology, oncology to increase the strength of the department and to boost up students’ knowledge.

The department incorporates multi-speciality services such as Cancer care, Surgical Intensive care and trauma care.  The department not only concentrate on surgical aspect of the disease but preventive aspect is taken care by conducting various awareness program and special skill training workshops. The Department has developed state of art Intensive Surgical care unit and trauma care unit which is monitored by well experienced faculties trained in Critical care management.

The department has adequate staff as per the statutory norms for guiding undergraduate and postgraduate students. Department of Medicine offers training for 500 undergraduates. From year 2020, every year 4 postgraduates will get opportunity to excel mastery in the surgical field.

The department delivers Inpatient and outpatient services for under-privileged sector of population in and around the Kanchipuram district. In addition to that, speciality clinics are conducted to widen the surgical care for them. Daily OPD is about 115-120 and 15-18 surgeries are performed (including major and minor surgery) per day. 

Department of Surgery bridges with other clinical allied surgical departments such as ENT, Ophthalmology, Orthopaedics to exchange professional skills, knowledge of the subject through interdepartmental training activities.

Total number of Publications:      17                              National:    1                                      International:  16

Titles of all the Publications to be mentioned below

1. Entry related injuries and port site hernias in laparoscopic procedures: a review of 100 cases
2. A clinical study on the management of sigmoid volvulus
3. Mini-clinical examination (mini-CEX) as a tool for formative assessment for surgical interns
4. Role of simulation in AETCOM and skill development of surgery
5. A Study of Port Site Infections in Laparoscopic Surgeries
6. A comparative study between benign and malignant conditions of upper gastrointestinal tract of helicobacter pylori using upper GI endoscopy in a tertiary care hospital, Kanchipuram, Tamil Nadu, India
7. A comparative study of diagnostic efficacy of fine needle aspiration cytology to open biopsy in cervical lymphadenopathy in a tertiary care hospital, Kanchipuram district, India
8. Congenital hernia 4 years’ experience in teaching hospital
9. Culture and sensitivity patterns in diabetic foot syndrome
10. Split skin graft for diabetic foot ulcer-an analysis
11. Clinicopathological study of SNT
12. Surgical Causes of pain in abdomen in children-retrospective study
13. A comparative study of Diathermy Vs Scalpel skin incision in abdominal surgeries
14. Skill development in Laparoscopic surgery using endo-trainers for House interns in a Teaching Hospital
15. Comparison Study of Apache-II Vs Ranson’s scoring And CT Severity Index for Its Outcome in Acute Pancreatitis In MMC & RI
16. A comparison of ultrasonographic and FNAC diagnostic accuracy of thyroid lesions
17. Comparative study on the outcome of negative pressure wound therapy and conventional dressing in chronic non healing ulcer

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             Day care surgery

              Speciality clinics (Breast, Thyroid)

              Speciality OP (Neuro-surgery, plastic surgery)

              Diagnostic procedures – GI Endoscopy, Colonoscopy

              Laparoscopic surgery 

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