Services Offered

In our department, the medical history of the patients are taken by the academic staff, pediatricians and research assistants and they are examined after their medical history according to their origin and lineage are evaluated, then the required laboratory and radiological tests and interventional procedures are decided. The blood that is necessary for the laboratory tests are collected by the nurses in the department. The patients are directed to the radiology departments for the requested radiological tests. Appointment is given for an appropriate time, for the interventional procedures that are performed in the department. The test and interventional procedure results of the patients are submitted to the patients in the afternoon of the same day, within the knowledge of relevant specialist and academic staff.

For all interventional procedures, the daily admission procedure of the patient is made when the patient applied to the secretariat on the day of the appointment, then the patient is directed to the relevant unit (to the relevant service for liver biopsy and to the endoscopy room located in the Pediatric Surgery Outpatient Clinic, on the upper floor of our department for other interventional procedures). In the unit, there are two beds reserved for performing these procedures. The patients to be proceeded are hospitalized in these beds for the same day or for one night.

The interventional procedures are performed once a week by a team composed of academic staff, specialists, nurses and technicians accompanied by anesthetists.