Our Washington University pediatric surgeons treat patients at St. Louis Children's Hospital, Barnes-Jewish West County Hospital and Missouri Baptist Medical Center (PAWS program).
This surgical group, all trained in accredited pediatric surgery fellowship programs, treat a wide range of medical conditions including congenital anomalies and diseases of the head and neck, chest, abdomen, and gastrointestinal tract. In addition, expert care is provided for children with cancer, trauma and burns. Many surgeries of the abdomen and chest are now performed as minimally invasive procedures, including removal of the gall bladder, appendix and ovarian cycts, fundoplication for gastroesophageal reflux, pectus excavatum repair, lung biopsy, chest or abdominal tumor biopsy, and treatment of pneumonia.
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Known for surgical treatment of congenital disorders, they correct congenital diaphragmatic hernia, fetal lung abnormalities, tracheoesophageal fistula, neck masses, gastroschisis and omphalocele. All are active participants in the Washington University Comprehensive Fetal Care Center, which offers compassionate care for families needing advanced fetal diagnostics, fetal surgical interventions and newborn medicine - all on one medical campus.
Because St. Louis Children's Hospital is a Pediatric Level 1 Trauma Center with the only dedicated pediatric burn center in the St. Louis metropolitan area, the pediatric surgeons work closely with physicians in the emergency room to provide surgical and follow-up care patients with major or minor trauma.
The pediatric acute wound service (PAWS) at St. Louis Children’s Hospital and Missouri Baptist Medical Center offers children specialized wound and burn care in an outpatient setting. Children with any wound that has not started to heal in two weeks or has not completely healed in six weeks need special care. Conditions treated at PAWS are burns, abscesses, pressure sores, surgical or traumatic wounds, pilonidal cysts and gastrostomy issues.
This team of surgeons is very active in pediatric cancer treatment - liver and kidney tumors, neuroblastomas, soft tissue sarcomas and other malignant conditions. They work closely with medical and radiation oncologists as well as other cancer specialists at St. Louis Children's Hospital and the Alvin J. Siteman Cancer Center.
The main pediatric surgical practice is located at St. Louis Children's Hospital, which is nationally recognized for its treatment of pediatric illnesses, injuries and congenital disorders. As a hospital that is dedicated exclusively to the treatment of children, St. Louis Children's Hospital utilizes the latest medical equipment sized to fit a wide age range of children and employs child-friendly pharmaceutical products and dosing, in an environment that makes necessary medical treatment as pleasant as possible.
Eighteen pediatric anesthesiologists provide sedation and pain management to children undergoing surgical procedures. The specialized expertise of our pediatric anesthesiologists, combined with the experience of the pediatric surgeons, contributes greatly to the successes achieved in treating pediatric surgical patients. Noteworthy examples are:
Washington University's Division of Pediatric Surgery provides a true general surgery practice. In addition to performing all hernia repairs, these physicians perform non-cardiac surgeries, gastrointestinal surgeries and surgeries involving the endocrine system. They specialize in treating children with traumas encompassing multiple organs, as well as burns.