The Granite Falls Hospital surgery staff provides services 24 hours a day, 7 days a week in acute care and same day surgical settings, to patients of all ages, ranging from infants to the geriatric population. Surgery staff includes Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists (CRNAs), circulating registered nurses, and surgical technicians. All CRNA’s and circulating nurses are trained in Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS), Comprehensive Advanced Life Support (CALS) and Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS).
Surgical Procedures
Our surgery department has the ability to perform many procedures such as:
- Ablation of Skin Lesion
- Appendectomy
- Aspiration
- Breast Biopsy
- Central Line Placement
- Chest Tube Insertion
- Colonoscopy
- Debridement/Skin Graft
- Evacuation of Thrombosed Hemorrhoid
- Excision Cyst
- Excision Pilonidal Cyst
- Excision Soft Tissue Mass
- Exploratory Laparoscopy
- Fistulectomy/Fistulotomy
- Foreign Body Removal
- Gastroscopy
- Hemorrhoidectomy
- Hernia Repair, Femoral
- Hernia Repair, Inguinal Laparoscopy
- Hernia Repair, Inguinal Open
- Laparoscopic Appendectomy
- Laparoscopic Excision of Gall Bladder
- Laparoscopic Lysis of Adhesions
- Laparoscopic Excision of Ovary
- Laparoscopic Tubal Ligation
- Laparoscopic Umbilical Hernia
- Laparoscopic Ventral Hernia
- Laparoscopic Colon Resection
- Lipoma Removal
- Lumpectomy
- Breast Lumpectomy with Lymph Node Biopsy
- Lymph Node Biopsy
- Mastectomy
- Open Bowel Resection
- Open Gallbladder Removal
- Open Exploratory Laparoscopy
- Open Lysis of Adhesion
- Open Umbilical Hernia Repair
- Open Ventral Hernia Repair
- Paracentesis
- Feeding Tube Placement
- Port-A-Cath Insertion and Removal
- Anal Sphincterotomy
- Splenectomy
- Temporal Artery Biopsy
- Thoracentesis
- Thyroidectomy
- Tonsillectomy & Adenoidectomy
- VNUS Closure Varicose Veins
- Varicose Vein Removal
- Wound Debridement
