Pediatric Surgery Department
Pediatric surgeons perform surgical procedures on children from newborns to adolescents, dealing with diseases, injuries, and abnormalities affecting children from the fetal stage to young adulthood.
Pediatric surgeons address the vast physiological differences across age groups and apply specific skills and professional approaches tailored to children and their families.
While other surgical specialties are defined by technique or body region, pediatric surgery is the only surgical specialty defined by the patient’s age, not by a specific condition.
Jordan Hospital has a dedicated pediatric unit staffed with highly skilled pediatric nurses. It is specially designed and equipped for children, ensuring their comfort during their stay. Pediatric surgical cases are often very different from those seen in adult or general surgery, especially congenital malformations.
Pediatric Surgeons Diagnose and Treat Children’s Surgical Needs, Including:
- Surgical repair of congenital malformations
- Gastrointestinal congenital anomalies: esophageal atresia and tracheoesophageal fistula, hypertrophic pyloric stenosis, intestinal atresia, necrotizing enterocolitis, meconium plug, Hirschsprung’s disease, anal atresia, malrotation.
- Abdominal wall defects – Umbilical hernia, gastroschisis, abdominal hernia.
- Pediatric urology – hypospadias, congenital kidney abnormalities, kidney, ureter, and bladder surgery.
- Surgery for congenital anomalies of the lower abdomen, pelvis, and upper thigh in childhood and adolescence – undescended testes, testicular torsion, hernia, hydrocele, varicocele.
- Childhood tumors – neuroblastoma, Wilms’ tumor, rhabdomyosarcoma, liver tumors, teratomas.
- Organ transplantation
- Endoscopy
- Bronchoscopy, esophagoscopy, colonoscopy
- Management of severe trauma requiring surgery
- Separation of conjoined (Siamese) twins
