Location information
Hospital address
chatham kent health alliance 80 grand ave west chatham chatham Ontario N7M 5L9 Canada
Hospital type
Public
Hospital description
First-Level Hospital
This is a teaching hospital
Description
, adjunct professor university of Western Ontario
Member information
Name
sivasubramaniam murugappan
Member type
Individual independent practitioner
Specialty
General Surgeon
Subspecialties
- Breast
- Burns
- Colorectal
- Endocrine
- Gastrointestinal
- Hepatobiliary
- Paediatric
- Surgical oncology
- Trauma and critical Care
Languages spoken
- Malay
- Tamil
- English
Professional affiliations / memberships
- Other
Other membership organisations
fellow of royal college of physicians and surgeons of canada
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
- 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
- Paediatric
- Tracheo-esophageal fistula
- Newborn intestinal atresias
- Ano-rectal malformations
- Hirschsprung’s Disease
- Tumors (Wilms’, neuroblastoma, hepatoblastoma)
- Head and neck anomalies
- Abdominal wall defects (gastroschisis, omphalocoele)
- Biliary atresia/choledochal cysts
- Trauma and Critical Care
- Total parenteral nutrition management
- Pressor management
- Vascular
- A-V fistula for dialysis
- Venous stasis disease
- Lymphatic disease
- Ability to do the following procedures
- Endoscopic retrograde cholangio-pancreatography (ERCP)
- Colonoscopy
- Sentinal lymph node biopsy
Equipment used
- Minimally invasive surgery (MIS)
- Natural orifice surgery
- Harmonic scalpel
- 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
- Vascular graft materials
- Dermatome
- Central venous catheters
- Total parental nutrition (TPN)