Location information
Hospital address
Highland Hospital Oakland CA 94602 United States of America
Hospital type
Public
Hospital description
First-Level Hospital
This is a teaching hospital
This is an approximate location
Member information
Name
Nikathan Kumar
Member type
Individual trainee
Specialty
General Surgeon
Subspecialties
- Include general surgery members that have not selected a subspecialty
Languages spoken
- English
- Spanish
Conditions treated
- Breast
- Benign breast disease
- Breast infections
- Gastrointestinal
- Volvulus
- Bowel Obstruction (parasitic, adhesive, mass)
- Malignant disease– colon, rectal, anal, carcinoids
- Diverticular disease
- Appendicitis
- Anal disease: Hemorrhoids, fissures, fistulae, prolapse
- Stomas – colostomies / ileostomies
- Endocrine
- Thyroid/parathyroid
- Hepatobiliary
- Cholelithiasis/choledocholithiasis
- Trauma and Critical Care
- Ventilator management
- Total parenteral nutrition management
- Pressor management
- Ability to do the following procedures
- Colonoscopy
- 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
- Temporary abdominal wound closure
- Synthetic or biologic patches/mesh
- Balloon catheters
- Vascular graft materials
- Dermatome
- Ultrasound
- Focused Assessment with Sonography for Trauma (FAST)
- Central venous catheters
- Mechanical ventilators
