Location information
Hospital address
Walter Reed National Military Medical Center 8901 Wisconsin Avenue Bethesda MD 20889 United States of America
Hospital type
Other
Hospital description
First-Level Hospital
This is a teaching hospital
Member information
Name
Carolyn Gosztyla
Member type
Individual independent practitioner
Specialty
General Surgeon
Subspecialties
- Include general surgery members that have not selected a subspecialty
Languages spoken
- English
Professional affiliations / memberships
- Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma (EAST)
- Other
Other membership organisations
APSA
Conditions treated
- Breast
- Benign breast disease
- Malignant breast disease
- Breast infections
- Burns
- Acute burn care
- 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
- Stomas – colostomies / ileostomies
- GI bleeds
- Hepatobiliary
- Cholelithiasis/choledocholithiasis
- Pancreatic pseudocyst
- Ability to do the following procedures
- Colonoscopy
- Sentinal lymph node biopsy
Equipment used
- Wound protectors
- Straight stapling devices
- End-to-end anastomosis (EEA) circular stapler
- Vacuum assisted closure device
- Temporary abdominal wound closure
- Synthetic or biologic patches/mesh
- Vascular graft materials
- Dermatome
- Mesher
- Gastroschisis springloaded silos
- Stimulator for anorectal malformation (ARM) procedures
- Ultrasound
- Focused Assessment with Sonography for Trauma (FAST)
- Central venous catheters
- Total parental nutrition (TPN)