Since the beginning of March 2024, the Department of Surgery for Newborns and Young Children has been operating at the Kyiv Perinatal Center. Highly specialized surgical care is provided here for children from birth to 6 years old.
In addition, the Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care for Newborns and Young Children with a mobile neonatology team has been opened in the surgical building.
The mobile neonatology team provides transportation of newborns in critical condition. The presence of our own resuscitation vehicle and a highly qualified team of doctors allow us to transport newborns from any maternity hospital in Kyiv around the clock to provide specialized surgical care.
Doctors of the Department of Surgery for Newborns and Young Children consult and examine children with suspected surgical pathology, who are brought by ambulance from any area of our city. If necessary, hospitalization and necessary treatment are provided.
Multidisciplinary team
After prenatally detected fetal defects, a multidisciplinary team consultation is conducted, consisting of an obstetrician-gynecologist, pediatric surgeon, neonatologist, and anesthesiologist. An action plan is developed for the management of pregnancy and childbirth. A route for further surgical treatment is also developed, depending on the complexity of the pathology. This can be both in the first hours of the baby’s life and in the early neonatal period.
Our specialists provide assistance:
- for nervous system defects or acquired hydrocephalus requiring neurosurgical intervention,
- esophageal atresia,
- gastroschisis,
- diaphragmatic hernias,
- omphalocele,
- gastrointestinal malformations,
- Hirschsprung’s disease,
- tracheomalacia;
- volumetric formations of the thoracic and abdominal cavities;
- esophageal atresia;
- gastroschisis;
- omphalocele;
- diaphragmatic hernias;
- gastrointestinal malformations;
- Hirschsprung’s disease;
- anorectal atresias.
- labia minora synechiae requiring surgical correction;
- cysts and other benign formations of the external genitalia;
- inflammatory complications requiring surgical treatment;
- urgent gynecological conditions
- plastic of the short frenulum of the tongue;
- removal of the parotid glands;
- removal of benign neoplasms (atheromas, lipomas, cysts, hemangiomas);
- treatment of phimosis (including ritual circumcisions);
- treatment of hydrocephalus and intraventricular hemorrhages.
The Perinatal Center uses modern treatment methods such as: ventricular punctures, ventricular-subgaleal shunts, installation of the Ommay reservoir, ventriculoperitoneal shunting, correction of congenital defects of the nervous system, endoscopic neurosurgical interventions.
In addition, we provide emergency surgical care for acute diseases in newborns and young children, gynecological pathology in children under 6 years of age that require surgical treatment. Operations are performed by pediatric gynecologists in collaboration with pediatric surgeons, neonatologists and anesthesiologists.
The Perinatal Center also provides neurosurgical care.
Neurosurgical care in the perinatal period is most often aimed at treating complications of prematurity and hypoxic lesions of the central nervous system. This area is coordinated by pediatric neurosurgeon, Candidate of Medical Sciences, Vadim Ivanovych Zyabchenko.
The Perinatal Center of Kyiv also provides emergency care for injuries. In particular, urgent neurosurgical operations are performed.
Newborns and young children who require surgical treatment are provided with a full range of anesthetic care and intensive care. Pediatric anesthesiologists with experience working with newborns, premature babies and patients with very low body weight work here.
After surgical interventions, if necessary, children are supervised in the neonatal and young child intensive care unit, where:
- 24-hour monitoring of vital signs;
- respiratory support;
- infusion therapy;
- control and treatment of postoperative pain;
- correction of vital function disorders.
Equipment
The department is equipped with modern medical equipment, which makes it possible to perform both minimally invasive and major surgical interventions with 24-hour monitoring of the children’s condition.
The department is staffed by the Department of Pediatric Surgery and the best specialists who help us keep up with modern methods and techniques based on the principles of evidence-based medicine.
If you have any questions, call us at: +38 067 845-14-31