Location information
Hospital address
Worcester Hosoital Worcester Worcester Western Cape 6850 South Africa
Hospital type
Public
Hospital description
Second-Level Hospital (Regional)
This is a teaching hospital
Member information
Name
Sule Burger
Member type
Individual independent practitioner
Specialty
General Surgeon
Subspecialties
- Include general surgery members that have not selected a subspecialty
Languages spoken
- Afrikaans
- English
Professional affiliations / memberships
- Other
Other membership organisations
Association of Surgeons of South Africa
Social profiles
Conditions treated
- Breast
- Benign breast disease
- Malignant breast disease
- 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
- Parotid
- Pancreas
- Hepatobiliary
- Liver disease benign
- Liver tumors malignant
- Cholelithiasis/choledocholithiasis
- Pancreatic tumors benign
- Pancreatic tumors malignant
- Pancreatic pseudocyst
- Trauma and Critical Care
- Ventilator management
- Total parenteral nutrition management
- Pressor management
- Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO) management
- Vascular
- Aneurysms
- Occlusive disease
- Venous stasis disease
- Ability to do the following procedures
- Colonoscopy
Equipment used
- Harmonic scalpel
- Straight stapling devices
- End-to-end anastomosis (EEA) circular stapler
- Vacuum assisted closure device
- Temporary abdominal wound closure
- Synthetic or biologic patches/mesh
- Balloon catheters
- Vascular graft materials
- Dermatome
- Mesher
- CT
- Ultrasound
- Focused Assessment with Sonography for Trauma (FAST)
- Mechanical ventilators
- Total parental nutrition (TPN)