Maui Memorial Medical Center (MMMC) operates the only inpatient surgery center on the island. We provide unmatched elective, urgent, same day, emergency and trauma surgical services to our community—in our community. If you need surgery, there's no need to leave Maui for expert care.
A highly specialized surgical team
All inpatient surgeries at MMMC are performed by highly skilled, surgeons with extensive experience in their field, and with the assistance of an exceptional surgical team. Board-certified anesthesiologists administer anesthesia. Most of our nurses and staff hold specialty certifications in such areas as operating room nursing, surgical technology, sterile processing and recovery room nursing.
Anesthesia: True or false?
Anesthesia, or anesthetics, blocks all feeling and can help you get through medical procedures without pain—and, often, without awareness.
While "going under" may be common, how much do you know about anesthesia?
True or false: Ether was the first anesthetic successfully used to put people under for surgery.
True. In 1846, a dentist demonstrated how ether fumes could be used to knock people out during surgery.
True or false: General anesthetics allow you to become unconscious and can only be delivered by gas.
False. General anesthesia does knock you out so that you have no awareness or sensations during surgery. But these drugs can be injected into your bloodstream or inhaled as a gas.
True or false: Getting anesthesia always means becoming unconscious.
False. Some anesthetics can be given with or without sedation, so you can stay awake. A local anesthetic numbs only a small part of your body, such as a tooth or a finger. A regional anesthetic helps numb larger areas and is delivered through a cluster of nerves.
True or false. General anesthetics that are inhaled wear off faster than those that are injected into veins.
False. Inhaled anesthetics take longer to wear off than those given through the veins. Intravenous anesthetics disappear from the bloodstream quickly, allowing patients to go home sooner after surgery.
True or false: Anesthesiologists are medical doctors.
True. Anesthesiologists have a medical degree. They also have to complete a four-year residency in anesthesiology.
Are you scheduled for a medical procedure or surgery? Ask your doctor what kind of anesthesia you can expect to have.
State-of-the-art surgical technology
We make sure our expert team has access to surgical suites outfitted with state-of-the-art equipment. That equipment includes surgical navigational systems to help precisely pinpoint areas of operation for neuro and head and neck surgeries, as well as the newest technology for trauma services and orthopedic surgeries.
Types of surgery we perform
Our team performs a wide range of surgeries, including outpatient procedures and minimally invasive surgeries.
Surgeries include:
- Abdominal.
- Breast.
- Cancer.
- Chest (thoracic).
- Colon and rectal.
- Foot and ankle.
- General.
- Gynecological.
- Head and neck.
- Heart.
- Laparoscopic/endoscopic.
- Neurosurgery.
- Oral and maxillofacial.
- Orthopedic, including total joint replacement, and sports medicine.
- Plastic and reconstructive.
- Spine.
- Urological.
- Vascular.
- Weight loss (bariatric).
Quality care close to home
Our surgical staff is focused on providing the highest quality, patient-centered care available. If you need surgery, let your doctor know that you want it done at Maui Memorial Medical Center.
- Surgical services
- Ambulatory care services