General surgery is a technical discipline that includes the treatment of systemic and local problems in the body by surgical methods, as well as general principles and has influenced many surgical and basic medical branches in terms of their development.

Anaesthesia is the name given to the process that is usually applied before surgical interventions and makes the whole or a certain part of the body insensitive to pain. Local anaesthesia is a type of anaesthesia that numbs only a certain part of the body.