Location information
Hospital address
Brigham and Women's Hospital 75 Francis Street BOSTON MA 02215 United States of America
Hospital type
University-affiliated
Hospital description
Third-Level Hospital (Referral)
Hospital website
https://www.brighamandwomens.org/
This is a teaching hospital
Description
I am currently an Acute Care Surgery fellow at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, MA, USA. I have a strong interest in the global medical missions and am joining InterSurgeon to see what opportunities there are to help others gain access to safe surgical care. I am particularly interested in helping to train, support, and educate practitioners/trainees in other countries so that they can better care for their communities.
Member information
Name
Megan Chan
Member type
Individual trainee
Specialty
General Surgeon
Subspecialties
- Trauma and critical Care
Languages spoken
- English
Professional affiliations / memberships
- Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma (EAST)
Conditions treated
- Breast
- Breast infections
- Burns
- Acute burn care
- Inhalation injury
- Gastrointestinal
- Volvulus
- Bowel Obstruction (parasitic, adhesive, mass)
- Malignant disease– colon, rectal, anal, carcinoids
- Diverticular disease
- Appendicitis
- Stomas – colostomies / ileostomies
- GI bleeds
- Endocrine
- Thyroid/parathyroid
- Hepatobiliary
- Liver disease benign
- Cholelithiasis/choledocholithiasis
- Trauma and Critical Care
- Ventilator management
- Total parenteral nutrition management
- Pressor management
- Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO) management
- Ability to do the following procedures
- Colonoscopy
- Ultrasound or CT-guided drain placement
- Sentinal lymph node biopsy
Equipment used
- Minimally invasive surgery (MIS)
- Other energy sealing devices
- 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
- Balloon catheters
- Dermatome
- Mesher
- Ultrasound
- Focused Assessment with Sonography for Trauma (FAST)
- Central venous catheters
- Mechanical ventilators