Location information
Hospital address
Wolaita sodo university comprehensive specialized hospital Wolaita sodo Addis Ababa Addis Ababa 1000 Ethiopia
Hospital type
University-affiliated
Hospital description
Third-Level Hospital (Referral)
This is a teaching hospital
Description
I am a consultant senior general surgeon. I have been working as clinical staff and teaching medical students and surgical residents. I have also involved in research symposiums and activities. I have helped my community in outreach programs like in health education and awareness creation.
Member information
Name
Temesgen Kassa
Member type
Individual independent practitioner
Specialty
General Surgeon
Subspecialties
- Include general surgery members that have not selected a subspecialty
Languages spoken
- Amharic
- English
Professional affiliations / memberships
- Other
Other membership organisations
Surgical society of Ethiopia (SSE)
Social profiles
Conditions treated
- Breast
- Benign breast disease
- Malignant breast disease
- Breast reconstruction
- Breast infections
- Burns
- Acute burn care
- Post-burn reconstruction
- Inhalation injury
- Gastrointestinal
- Volvulus
- Bowel Obstruction (parasitic, adhesive, mass)
- Benign polyps
- Malignant disease– colon, rectal, anal, carcinoids
- Inflammatory bowel disease
- Diverticular disease
- Appendicitis
- Anal disease: Hemorrhoids, fissures, fistulae, prolapse
- Incontinence
- Stomas – colostomies / ileostomies
- GI bleeds
- Endocrine
- Thyroid/parathyroid
- Adrenal
- Pituitary
- Parotid
- Pancreas
- Hepatobiliary
- Liver disease benign
- Liver tumors malignant
- Cholelithiasis/choledocholithiasis
- Pancreatic tumors benign
- Pancreatic tumors malignant
- Pancreatic pseudocyst
- Paediatric
- Tracheo-esophageal fistula
- Newborn intestinal atresias
- Ano-rectal malformations
- Hirschsprung’s Disease
- Tumors (Wilms’, neuroblastoma, hepatoblastoma)
- Pectus excavatum
- Head and neck anomalies
- Abdominal wall defects (gastroschisis, omphalocoele)
- Biliary atresia/choledochal cysts
- Congenital pulmonary airway malformations
- Vascular anomalies
- Trauma and Critical Care
- Ventilator management
- Total parenteral nutrition management
- Pressor management
- Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO) management
- Vascular
- A-V fistula for dialysis
- Aneurysms
- Occlusive disease
- Venous stasis disease
- Lymphatic disease
- Ability to do the following procedures
- Endoscopic retrograde cholangio-pancreatography (ERCP)
- Colonoscopy
- Ultrasound or CT-guided drain placement
- Ultrasound or CT-guided needle biopsy
- Frozen section pathology
- Sentinal lymph node biopsy
Equipment used
- Minimally invasive surgery (MIS)
- Harmonic scalpel
- Other energy sealing devices
- Wound protectors
- CT
- MRI
- Ultrasound
- Focused Assessment with Sonography for Trauma (FAST)
- Endoscopic ultrasound
- Mechanical ventilators
- Total parental nutrition (TPN)
- Chemotherapy
- Radiation