Date: Friday 30th of January, 2009
Time: 8 – 9am
Presenter: Dr. William Mol
Topic: Audit of all the Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery cases.
Venue: Goroka General Hospital

Summary:

The above date was schedule for the radiology/radiography department to present. However, due to some unavoidable circumstances they were unable to present. Because of such reasons & visiting presenters, our grand round schedule is updated regularly. For last minute cancellations it may be inconvenient & unfair to pressure another department to present as a substitute. Therefore, the co-ordinator (Dr. William Mol) attempts to fill in this gap with his own presentations that he prepares in advance.

Last Friday Dr. Mol presented an audit of all the Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery cases, he has done in 2008. The commonest cases were lumps & bumps in the head and neck area. Most of these cases were done under local anaesthesia in the surgical ward. For cystic lesions they were all sclerosed as day cases, also in the wards. This approach was an improvement in saving manpower-time and cost for bringing patients into the operation theatre thus leaving time & space for the limited staff to deal with major cases & emergencies. The complications following these procedures were minimal. Plastic & Reconstructive surgery services works side by side, mainly with the ENT, Head & Neck, Maxillofacial and the general surgery department as a team approach. Team surgery improves the outcome while shortening the anaesthetic time. Goroka General Hospital is a frontier in such approach to managing patients in PNG, especially cancer patients. We encourage other hospitals to adapt such an approach too.