Expert Paediatric Surgery for Your Child's Health at KLE Hospital

Features Treatments

Overview

The Department of Paediatric surgery was started in 1994, under the able leadership of Dr Vijay C Pujar. Dr. Santosh B. Kurbet then took over as Head of Department from 01/10/2014 to date.

Our dept in KLES Dr. Prabhakar Kore Hospital and MRC has well established OPD, outpatient-clinic, progressive care wards, Hi-tech-operation-theatres and Intensive-care-Units. We are having OPD, 15 bedded Paediatric-surgical general-ward, 36 bedded NICU(Neonatal-intensive-care-unit) with 7 ventilator-beds shared with neonatology, 14 bedded PICU(Paediatric-intensive-care-unit), 10 beds on free-side shared-with Paediatrics and separate OT for Paediatric-surgical cases.

Pediatric surgery is super-speciality involving the surgery of fetuses, infants, children, adolescents, and young adults and include subspecialities lik : Neonatal Surgery, Minimally Invasive-Surgery even in newborns and infants (Laparoscopy and Thoracoscopy), Paediatric-Urology and Foetal Surgery.

Paediatric Surgical Services Provided include

Antenatal: Counselling and surgical-treatment is being provided.

Neonatal: Birth-Defects involving-abdomen, thoracic, etc are dealt here-surgically

Pediatric Oncology: The early diagnosis and multimodal treatment

Trauma: Surgical-interventions or conservative-treatment for organ-trauma

Thoracic: Conditions-treated by VATS or open-surgeries.

Hepato-biliary-pancreatic-Surgery and GI-Diseases: Operated by minimally invasive or open surgeries.

The department has made name in Supra-major-Single-Stage-Reconstructive-surgeries for Exstrophy-bladder, abdominal-wall-defects, oesophageal-conditions, biliary, anorectal-malformations and-hypospadias done-by Dr Santosh B Kurbet, Senior Consultant in the department.

Strength of the dept has-been Redo-Surgeries for oesophageal-reconstructions, anorectal-malformations, Hirschsprung's, hypospadias and bladder-redo-surgeries done elsewhere.

The department has also been involved in teaching and guiding Post-graduate students, and doing-various presentations in international and national conferences. The dept also caters for free surgeries under various schemes for poor and underprivileged children with surgical diseases.

Treatments

Neonatal Surgeries including abdominal (stomach, intestinal, pancreas and renal) thoracic, urinary, brain and spine surgeries and other birth defects
minimally invasive Surgeries (Laparoscopic and Thoracoscopic surgeries. VATS (video assisted thoracic surgeries) in newborns and children.
Supra major Single stage reconstructive surgeries for Exstrophy bladder, abdominal wall defects, oesophageal conditions, biliary, anorectal malformations and hypospadias.
Bronchoscopy for life threatening foreign body retrievals
Emergency surgeries for complicated hernias, intestinal obstructions, G I bleeding, acute appendicitis, cholecystitis, hydrostatic reductions for intussusceptions, etc.
Airway and lung surgeries like tracheo-bronchial reconstructions, H-fistulas, congenital diaphragmatic hernias, lung cysts (CPAM/CCAMs), tumours, empyemas, (CLE) lobar emphysemas and lung sequestrations
Abdominal and Intestinal surgeries for mesenteric/omental cysts, duplication cysts, irreducible intussusceptions and neoplasms.
Supra Major Biliary, Liver and Pancreatic reconstructive surgeries.
Reconstructive surgeries for vascular lesions, lymphangiomas, torticollis (wry neck), swellings and tumours
Surgeries for endocrine disorders on thyroid gland, parathyroid gland, pancreas and adrenal glands
Cancer Surgeries for cancers in children like Wilm's tumour, neuroblastomas, rhabdomyosarcomas, sacrococcygeal tumours and gonadal tumours
Neonatal central lines, arterial lines and venous cutdowns, ICD tube insertions, pigtail insertions.
Oesophagoscopy for foreign bodies and diagnostic procedures
Cystoscopy procedures for diagnosis and therapy
Placement of Chemoports and Hemodialysis catheters.
Surgery for CAPD (Continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis) catheter insertion.
Redo-Surgeries for oesophageal reconstructions, anorectal malformations redo-cases. Hirschsprung's redo-cases, intestinal and hypospadias redo-surgeries and bladder redo-surgeries

Features

Neonatal Surgeries including abdominal (stomach, intestinal, pancreas and renal) thoracic, urinary, brain and spine surgeries and other birth defects
minimally invasive Surgeries (Laparoscopic and Thoracoscopic surgeries. VATS (video assisted thoracic surgeries) in newborns and children.
Supra major Single stage reconstructive surgeries for Exstrophy bladder, abdominal wall defects, oesophageal conditions, biliary, anorectal malformations and hypospadias.
Endoscopic surgeries like Bronchoscopic (life threatening foreign body retrievals) oesophagoscopic surgeries and cystoscopic surgeries.
Non-Operative Hydrostatic reductions for intussusceptions
Airway and lung surgeries like tracheo-bronchial reconstructions, H fistulas, lung cysts (CPAM/CCAMs), tumours, empyemas, lobar emphysemas and lung sequestrations
Abdominal and Intestinal surgeries for mesenteric/omental cysts, duplication cysts, irreducible intussusceptions and neoplasms.
Supra Major Biliary, Liver and Pancreatic reconstructive surgeries.
Reconstructive surgeries for vascular lesions, lymphangiomas, torticollis(wry neck), branchial ,soft tissue swellings and tumours;
Surgeries for endocrine disorders on thyroid gland, parathyroid gland, pancreas and adrenal glands
Surgeries for hydrocephalus and neural tube defects in newborns and small children
Diagnostic procedures for biopsies,
Surgeries for cancers in children like Wilm's tumour, neuroblastomas, rhabdomyosarcomas, sacrococcygeal tumours, and gonadal tumours
Strength of the dept has been Redo-Surgeries for oesophageal reconstructions, anorectal malformations redo-cases. Hirschsprung's redo-cases, intestinal and hypospadias redo-surgeries and bladder redo-surgeries done elsewhere and with complications, etc
Neonatal central lines, arterial lines and venous cutdowns.
Placement of Chemoports and Hemodialysis catheters.
Surgery for CAPD (Continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis) catheter insertion.
Expertise in neonatal and procedures in children like ICD (Intercostal drainage tube insertion) and pigtail insertion for Liver and peritoneal abscesses