Pediatric surgery is a sub speciality of surgery pertaining to patients ranging from new-borns to 18 years of age. It comes with its own challenges that differentiate it from other surgeries. Whether it is the small size of babies and children to be operated or dealing with their responses to illness or surgery, every aspect of Pediatric Surgery needs special attention. Hence, there is a rationale for a dedicated division for Paediatric Surgery.
4. Neonatal Intestinal Obstruction
Bilious Vomiting
+/- fail to pass meconium
Abdominal Distension
+/- Bilious vomiting
+/- fail to pass meconium
Upper GI Obstruction
Duodenal Atresia
Malrotation
Jejunal/ileal/colonic atresia
Meconium ileus
Anorectal malformation
Hirschsprung’s Disease
Small or large bowel
5. PASSAGE OF MECONIUM
• CANNOT RULE OUT OBSTRUCTION
• CAN PASS EVEN IN CASES OF ATRESIA
6. Causes
Intestinal atresia
Malrotation with or without Midgut volvulus
Meconium ileus
Meconium Peritonitis
Ano-Rectal Malformation
Hirschsprung’s Disease
7. CASE
Term male child 2.7 Kg
discharged after delivery
Passed meconium
Antenatal history normal
Presented at day 5 with
yellowish vomiting
Admitted and managed
conservatively
27. Aganglionosis can extend to variable distance
• Short segment – Classical
Rectosigmoid (60-70%)
• Long Segment (15-20%)
• Total colonic
aganglionosis (5-10%)
• Ultrashort segment
Hirschsprung’s Disease
28. Presentation
• Characteristically disease of full term newborn
• History of constipation dating back to newborn
period
• 95% of newborns defecate in first 24 hrs
of life
• Abdominal distension
• Poor feeding
• Failure to thrive
34. • Day 1, Term 39 wks,
delivered in Sonepat
• Antenatal scan:
Polyhydramnios
• Respiratory distress
• Intubated and transferred
in BLK
A new born with
respiratory distress
CONGENITAL DIAPHRAGMATIC HERNIA
40. Post Operative Course
• Stable on ventilator (PSV)
• Had collpase/ consolidation of Rt
Lung….managed conservatively
• Extubated on POD 9
• Discharged on POD 13
• Asymptomatic now at 3 months
41. A new born with
respiratory distress
Cystic adenomatoid malformation
42. Air filled cystic spaces:
Congenital Cystic Adenomatoid Malformation