1st Edition
Essential Paediatric Surgery A Practical Guide
With this timely practical textbook encompassing the full range of clinical conditions within paediatric surgery, surgeons-in-training will be delighted to discover that the book offers them a concise outline of paediatric surgical practice, thus ensuring that they are wholly familiar with a wide range of clinical scenarios.
Key topics are included within sections on neonatal surgical conditions, surgical disorders of infancy, surgical conditions in childhood and adolescence, head and neck, hepatobiliary and pancreatic disorders, preparation of the child for surgery, malignant disorders, urology, neurosurgery and trauma. Short chapters complemented by clinical photography, schematic figures and tables splendidly enable the reader to understand key concepts with confidence.
Author-experts throughout the world have generously contributed to this textbook, ensuring that the contents reflect ‘real world’ practice. A wide range of readers, notably surgeons-in-training, members of the paediatric surgery care team including nursing staff, postgraduates seeking core knowledge of paediatric surgery for board examinations, and surgeons planning to specialise in paediatric surgery, will benefit greatly from this practical guide.
Preface
Editor biography(s)
Contributing authorship(s)
I Want to be a Paediatric Surgeon
Neonatal Surgery
1) Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia & Eventration Of The Diaphragm
Shankar Raghu, Martin T. Corbally, Paul D. Losty
2) Oesophageal Atresia and Tracheo-Oesophageal Fistula & Congenital Oesophageal Disorders
Shankar Raghu, Martin T. Corbally, Paul D. Losty
3) Neonatal Mediastinal Mass Lesions
Ryo Tamura and Hany Gabra
4) Neonatal Pulmonary Barotrauma – Surgical Aspects
Shankar Raghu, Martin T. Corbally
5) Congenital Lung Malformations
Georgina Bough and Mike Stanton
6) Exomphalos And Gastroschisis
Shankar Raghu, Martin T. Corbally, Paul D. Losty
7) Intestinal Atresia: Duodenal-Jejunal-Ileal-Colonic Disorders
Marion Arnold and Sharon Cox
8) Malrotation And Heterotaxy Disorders
, Rocio Boudou, Sabrina Pintos and Pablo Lobos
9) Hirschsprung Disease
Patrick Chung and Paul KH Tam,
10) Anorectal Malformations
Shankar Raghu and Martin T. Corbally
11) Meconium Ileus
Andrea Conforti, Francesco Morini and Pietro Bagolan,
12) Infantile Hypertrophic Pyloric Stenosis
Gerlin Naidoo and Paul D. Losty
13) Necrotising Enterocolitis (NEC)
Elke Ruttenstock, Agostino Pierro and Augusto Zani
14) Intestinal Failure
Annika Mutanen and Mikko Pakarinen
15) Neonatal Abdominal Masses
Ryo Tamura and Hany Gabra
16) Cardiac Surgery
Mark Redmond and David Vondrys
17) Fetal Surgery
Cara Berkowitz and William H Peranteau
Surgical Disorders Of Infancy
18) Inguinal Hernia & Hydrocoele
Nabeel Asheeri
19) Umbilical Hernia, Epigastric Hernia and Allied Conditions
Steve Donnell
20) Vitello-Intestinal Duct Disorders
Nick Lansdale
21) Undescended Testes
Spencer Beasley
22) Intussusception
Emma Sidebotham
23) Intestinal Foreign Bodies and Corrosive Oesophagitis
Prince Raj, Abeer Farhan, Paul D Losty and Martin T. Corbally
24) Gastro-Oesophageal Reflux
Natalie Durkin and Paolo De Coppi
25) Necrotizing Pneumonia
Prince Raj, AlAwadhi Mohamed Amin and Martin T. Corbally
Surgical Conditions In Childhood & Adolescence
26) Acute and Recurrent Abdominal Pain of Childhood
Hind Zaidan and Martin T. Corbally
27) Disorders Of the Spleen
Riccardo Coletta, Kejd Bici and Antonino Morabito
28) Inflammatory Bowel Disease
Bruce Jaffray
29) Lower Gastrointestinal Bleeding and Polyps in Children
Olugbenga Awolaran and Bruce Okoye
30) Constipation And Faecal Incontinence
Payam Saadai and Marc Levitt
31) Chest Wall deformities
Elizabeth O’Connor and Hany Gabra
32) Acute Disorders of the Ovary
Sarah Braungart and Paul D Losty
33) Acute Scrotum
Zeni Haveliwala and Alexander Cho
34) Disorders of the Breast
Jennifer Mou and Vicky Wong
35) Ectopic Pregnancy
Cara Williams
36) Sexually Transmitted Infection(s)
Cara Williams
Head And Neck
37) Thyroid
Alok Sharma, Iain J. Nixon and Paul Cullis,
38) Branchial Cleft, Branchial Fistula and Sternal Cleft Lesions
Emma Whitehall and Adam Donne
39) Lymphadenopathy
A Boonthai and Paul D. Losty
40) Airway Disorders & Subglottic Stenosis
Bronagh Lang, Rania Mehanna and John Russell
Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Disorders
41) Biliary Atresia
Mark Davenport
42) Choledochal Malformation
Mark Davenport
43) Cholelithiasis
Mark Stringer
44) Congenital Hyperinsulinism (CHI)
Pablo Laje and NS Adzick
Preparation of The Child for Surgery
45) Physiology – ABC - Fluid and Electrolyte Balance in Pediatric Surgical Patients
Prince, Abeer, Alawadi and Martin T. Corbally
46) Nutritional Support
Dhanya Mullassery and Simon Eaton
47) Special Anaesthetic Considerations for the Surgical Patient with Allied Medical Disorders
Lisa Barneto and Katherine Lau
48) Consent
Prince, Abeer and Martin T. Corbally
49) Patient Safety and WHO Surgery Check List(s)
Iain Yardley
50) Ethical Challenges of the Extremely Preterm Neonate
Hind Zaidan and Martin T. Corbally
51) Ethics & Conjoined Twins
Hind Zaidan and Martin T. Corbally
Malignant Disorders
52) Abdominal Solid Tumours
Alessandro Crocoli and Alessandro Inserra
53) Neoplasms Of the Ovary and Testes
Sarah Braungart and Paul D. Losty
54) Head And Neck Malignancy
Omar Sabra
55) Chest And Mediastinal Tumours
Chan Hon Chui
56) Sacrococcygeal Teratoma
Paul D Losty
57) Lymphoma(s)
Luca Pio
58) Skin And Naevi
Martin Van Carlen, Rong Khaw and Adel Fatah
59) Vascular And Lymphatic Disorders
Claire Ostertag-Hill, Anna McGuire, Belinda Dickie and Steve Fishman
60) Endocrine Tumours
Simone Abib
61) Vascular Access
Laura Phillips and Hany Gabra
62) Infections And the Paediatric Cancer Patient
Olivia Burdall and Timothy Rodgers
Urology
63) Antenatal Hydroureteronephrosis : Posterior Urethral Valves And Prenatal Urinary Tract Dilatation
Diane De Caluwe and Marie-Klaire Farrugia
64) Pelvi-Ureteric Junction Obstruction
Diane De Caluwe and Mohamed Shalaby
65) Enuresis
Faisal Almutairi and Anju Goyal
66) Neuropathic Bladder
Faisal Almutairi and Anju Goyal
67) Hypospadias
Ahmed Hadidi
68) Bladder Extrophy And Variants
Peter Cuckow
69) Preputial Disorders - Phimosis, BXO and Circumcision
Semiu Eniola Folaranmi and Paul D Losty
70) Vesico-Ureteric Reflux
Fabio Bartoli
71) Abnormalities Of The Vagina In Childhood
Prince Raj, Abeer Farhan and Martin T Corbally
72) Disorders Of Sexual Development
Neetu Kumar and Abraham Cherian
Neurosurgery
73) Spina Bifida And Neural Tube Defects
Prince Raj and Martin T. Corbally
74) Hydrocephalus And Raised Intracranial Pressure
Talal AlMayman
75) Central Nervous System – Miscellaneous Lesions
Tala AlMayman
Trauma
76) APLS and ATLS – Essential Principles Of Care
Hussein Ahmed and Martin T. Corbally
77) Foreign Body Aspiration
Hesham Yusuf Saad
78) Chest Trauma
Andrew Holland
79) Abdomen And Pelvic Trauma
Hussein Ahmed and Martin T. Corbally
80) Pediatric Extremity Injury
Abdulla Fakhro
81) Munchausen By Proxy, Non-Accidental Injury And Child Abuse
A Boonthai and Paul D. Losty
82) Burns & Bites
Agata Plonczak and Adel Fattah
Index
Biography
Martin Corbally is a consultant paediatric surgeon and chief of staff at the Royal Medical Services - King Hamad University Hospital, Kingdom of Bahrain. An Ainsworth scholar, he has completed training in paediatric surgical oncology at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York City, liver transplantation at Kings College Hospital, London and is a former senior registrar at Great Ormond St. Hospital and Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital Crumlin, Dublin. He is the professor and head of the Department of Surgery at the Royal College of Surgeons – Medical University of Bahrain. He has a major interest in surgical education, global paediatric surgery and is founder and programme director of Operation Childlife – an Irish registered global charity.
Paul Losty has served as professor of paediatric surgery at Alder Hey Children’s Hospital Liverpool, one of the largest Children’s Hospitals in the UK and Europe. Professor Losty trained in general surgery and paediatric surgery in the major university teaching hospitals affiliated with the Royal College of Surgeons (RCSI) in Ireland, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School Boston, USA and Alder Hey Children's Hospital Liverpool. Working as a university academic surgeon at the University of Liverpool for almost 30 years, Professor Losty delivered clinical and faculty leadership in academic paediatric surgery. He has major interests in surgical research, education and teaching, mentorship and leadership and has helped train generations of young paediatric surgeons in the clinic, operating room and science laboratory. Professor Losty is now currently serving as a distinguished and visiting professor of surgery at Ramathibodi Hospital Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand and is a volunteer surgeon with Operation Child Life – an Irish global charitable organisation providing surgical health care to low- and middle-income countries.
