 Lucile Packard Children's Hospital's pediatric general surgery team treats a wide variety of diseases and conditions affecting young people from fetus through adolescence involving the:In addition, the pediatric general surgeons at Packard Children's offer services in:
Back to top Bariatric Surgery for Obese AdolescentsBariatric surgery is a treatment option offered through Packard Children's Center for Healthy Weight. Bariatric surgery is performed only for severely obese adolescents who have not had long-term success with all other means of weight loss and are suffering from severe complications related to their overweight.Back to top Birth DefectsKnown technically as congenital anomalies, birth defects are abnormalities that are present when a child is born. Discovering that your child has a birth defect can be a difficult, even traumatic event. Packard Children's general surgeons are specially trained in providing surgical repair of birth defects and supporting the families of affected children. In some cases, surgery is performed before the child is born, while still in the womb.The conditions treated at Packard Children's include:
Back to top CancerAlthough cancer in children is rare, the disease does occur, in forms different from what is seen in adults. Typically, childhood cancers are more responsive to therapy and have a better prognosis than the adult disease. In addition, children tolerate aggressive therapy well and generally have very good prognoses.Our pediatric general surgeons specialize in diagnosing and removing solid-tumor cancers. Some of the forms of cancer treated by our team are:
Back to top Intestinal Rehabilitation ProgramThe intestinal rehabilitation program is designed to meet the needs of children with short bowel syndrome. These patients have inadequate bowel to meet oral nutritional needs and are dependent on nutrition through intravenous routes (TPN).These children are at risk of progressing to liver failure, and ultimately may require intestinal transplant and/or liver transplant. Dr. Sanjeev Dutta, a board-certified pediatric surgeon, works with a highly skilled group of gastroenterologists and allied health care professionals to manage children with this condition to optimize gut function and hopefully avoid or delay transplant. This includes the use of novel surgical approaches such as the STEP (Serial Transverse Enteroplasty) procedure, which is used to lengthen and taper bowel and may improve overall bowel function and nutrient absorption. Back to top Surgery on Newborns and ECMOVery young infants with birth defects offer unique surgical challenges. Packard Children's general surgeons have the skills and technical capabilities to work on the difficult cases these children present. In some cases, we perform minimally invasive procedures that are typically not applied to such small children in other children's hospitals.When required, surgeons working with neonatalogists (specialists in newborn care) can support severely ill babies with extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO). ECMO is a highly advanced technique that bypasses the heart and lungs and allows healing or treatment of reversible heart or lung failure. Back to top Trauma and Critical CareAs a designated Level I Trauma Center — the highest ranking for hospitals providing emergency services — Packard Children's delivers pediatric emergency care at Stanford Hospital & Clinics. Critically injured and ill children from all over the Bay Area are sent here, because Packard Children's offers unique expertise, state-of-the-art emergency medicine, and trauma-certified surgeons.Back to top Vascular AccessPractically every hospitalized child requires intravenous (IV) therapy; unfortunately, starting the IV can be one of the child’s most painful experiences in the hospital. A specialized team of Packard Children's pediatric general surgeons, led by Dr. Craig Albanese, and nurses have developed special tools and techniques to reduce the number of times IVs have to be started and to make the procedure as comfortable as possible. The team can also place a special type of IV called a PICC for children requiring long-term IV therapy.Back to top Lucile Packard Children's Hospital is located in Palo Alto, adjacent to Stanford University Hospital, approximately 20 miles north of San Jose, CA and 40 miles south of San Francisco.
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