General Surgery
Skilled Surgical Treatment to Bring You Back to Health
Southeast Iowa Regional Medical Center’s surgeons help improve the health of patients through operations on internal organs, the skin, and blood vessels. We offer comprehensive general surgery to treat complicated health conditions with state-of-the-art equipment wielded by our expert medical staff. Behind every surgeon is a skilled team including anesthesiologists, radiologists, pathologists, registered nurses, surgical technologists, and other support staff. Patients are surrounded by specialized, highly knowledgeable care providers who have warm, caring attitudes with high-tech expertise.
Our Surgical Services
The skilled surgeons at Southeast Iowa Regional Medical Center prioritize patient comfort and safety and only recommend surgical treatment when it is necessary to treat your condition. Our staff wants you to have a positive, healing experience when surgery is required, and we use the least invasive operative techniques.
Surgical services address:
- Abdominal aortic aneurysm repair
- Barrett’s esophagus
- Breast biopsy and surgery
- Bronchoscopy
- Circulatory surgery
- Colonoscopy and EGD
- Dialysis-access surgery
- Endocrine surgery
- Gallbladder surgery
- Hernia repair
- Lung surgery
- Varicose veins
Types of Surgical Procedures
- Endoscopy – A nonsurgical procedure in which a physician uses a flexible tube with a light and camera attached to see images of the digestive tract on a monitor
- Laparoscopy – A surgeon inserts a long-narrow surgical instrument with a camera on the tip through a small incision. While watching a video monitor, the surgeon performs surgery using surgical tools inserted through other small incisions.
- Open surgery – A surgeon makes an incision large enough to access the area in which surgery is performed.
- Radiofrequency ablation – An endoscopic technique in which diseased tissue is exposed to heat energy and destroyed
