Before a child goes into an operating room, a large screen displays a risk score. This score predicts potential complications, provides an estimated time for recovery, and recommends the course of ...

In late 2018, a handful of pediatric specialists with an interest in the nascent field of enhanced recovery after surgery, more commonly known as ERAS, gathered in Richmond, Virginia. It was the first ...

Written by Keynote Contributor, Dr. Joseph G. Barone. The orderly is shocked because a child is undergoing surgery, but no surgeon is at the bedside. Unseen in a quiet corner of the operating room ...

Many conditions can affect your child's airway and lungs (the pulmonary system). Your child may have a cyst, fluid build-up, lung malformations, emphysema, or some other congenital or emergency ...

The goal of the Pediatric Endoscopic Surgery Fellowship Program is to teach and mentor skilled and compassionate pediatric endoscopic surgeons and to mold future leaders in pediatric endoscopic ...

As a pediatric surgeon and director of the Trauma Program at Children’s of Alabama, Robert Russell, M.D., MPH, cares for the youngest, smallest, and most innocent patients of Alabama. A professor in ...

Updated IDSA/PIDS guidelines for 2026 provide recommendations for managing CAP-associated parapneumonic effusion in children.

In children undergoing cardiac surgery by thoracotomy, paravertebral blocks with ropivacaine reduced opioid consumption by nearly half within 24 hours after surgery compared with local anesthetic, ...

Pediatric surgery is the medical specialty concerned with the surgical treatment of infants, children and adolescents. Pediatric surgeons are the healthcare providers responsible for carrying out ...

Spring is finally giving way to summer, and with the lengthening days and warming temperatures come an increase in playground injuries among kids. Falls off the monkey bars that result in a bad bone ...