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Pediatric Surgery
Surgery of children and neonates, where the diseases are congenital as often as acquired, the anatomy still moving, and the doses, tubes and consent all scale with age. Bilious vomiting in a baby is this specialty's 'chest pain': an emergency until proven otherwise.
The operations
Procedures
What the specialty does in theatre, with the imagery that goes with it.
What the specialty does in theatre: each operation with its image, its indication, and the doors into OR prep and the step-by-step walkthrough.
Featured operation
Ramstedt pyloromyotomy
Splitting the overgrown pyloric muscle down to (never through) the mucosa, for the hungry vomiting baby; the emergency beforehand is the chemistry, not the surgery.
Indication: Infantile hypertrophic pyloric stenosis, after full correction of the hypochloraemic alkalosis.
Common and emergency operations
The rest of the list
Hub shaped by the Surgical Specialties Lead with the Paediatric surgery reviewer (open seat). Images and videos carry their source; educational use for supervised learning, not clinical guidance.