Lakes provides acute and elective surgical services at Rotorua and Taupō hospital sites.
Acute services are provided 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and range from minor injuries/illness to major trauma. Elective services are provided five days per week and incorporate patient care in inpatient, day patient, and outpatient environments.
Day Stay Unit
Day Stay Unit is our point of entry for elective surgical patients. The unit has 10 beds and 10 La-Z-Boy chairs and is currently open from 7.00am - 5.30pm. As patients arrive they are assessed and prepared for their surgery.
Surgical Unit
The Surgical Unit cares for acute and elective surgical patients requiring general surgery procedures/care as well as acute urology, gynaecology, ophthalmology and ENT patients who may require at least one overnight stay.
Most patients in the Unit undergo surgery, but some are managed conservatively. There are 25 beds in the Surgical Unit.
Where to find us: see the Rotorua Hospital map here.
The General Surgery team are based at Rotorua Hospital but provide visiting services to Taupō Hospital.
What is General Surgery?
The role of the General Surgical Department varies from hospital to hospital, but in broad terms general surgery can be said to deal with a wide range of conditions within the abdomen, breast, neck, skin and, in many hospitals, vascular (blood vessel) system.
While the name would suggest that the focus of general surgery is to perform operations, often this is not the case. Many patients are referred to surgeons with conditions that do not need surgical procedures, but merely require counselling or medical treatment.
What is Vascular Surgery?
Vascular surgery is the branch of surgery that involves the diagnosis and treatment of disorders of the vessels that carry blood away from (arteries) and back to (veins) your heart.
Vascular disorders include blockages and narrowings of the vessels, abnormal swellings of the vessels (aneurysm) or vessel malfunctions. The disease processes involved in vascular disorders often involve other body systems and your treatment may therefore require the combined efforts of other medical specialists such as radiologists and general physicians.