Services Offered

Chest, stomach-intestinal canal, reproductive and urinary tract oriented endoscopic and open surgeries as well as endoscopic diagnosis and treatment procedures are performed in Pediatric Surgery Subdivision.

Surgeries

In Department of Pediatric Surgery, surgeries are performed under local or general anesthesia.
Most common surgeries performed under local anesthesia are suturing, dispose of abscess contents, skin and subcutaneous tissue biopsy, muscle and nerve biopsies, nevus removal and lymph node biopsy. Such surgical operations are performed in the Small Surgical Intervention Room, located in Pediatric Surgery Outpatient Clinic Hall.

Surgical operations performed undergeneral anesthesia can be analyzed in two groups; outpatient surgeries and inpatient surgeries.

Outpatient Surgeries

Before such surgeries, the patient is sent to operating room after being controlled in the outpatient clinic, and then after operation is allowed to go home on the same day. Major outpatient surgeries are as follows:

Inguinal area surgeries: Hernia, hydrocele, undescended testicle, varicocele, cord cyst,
Head and neck region surgeries: Lymph node biopsy, bronchial residual surgeries,
Central catheter placement, port catheter insertion,
Perineal area operations: Drainage of perianal abscess, perianal fistula, hemorrhoidectomy, anal dilatation, urethral dilatation.

Considerations before outpatient surgeries

Please contact Pediatric Surgery Outpatient clinic on the control date stated in the appointment.
Please bring official referral documents and X-ray results with you, if any.
Please make your payments (if you do not have an official letter or have requested private procedure) at the teller’s desk at the hospital and acquire a receipt. Do not make any payments to any other officials or desks without a receipt.
Please have a control examination done and if any additional tests requested, please take these requests to the relevant departments.
Please show the test results to your physician in the outpatient clinic.
Please be sure to keep your child fasting starting from the identified hour on the night before the surgery. Otherwise, please inform your physician in charge.
If there is any medication that your child is taking regularly, please make sure to use the medication in compliance with the instructions of the physician, who has given the appointment before the surgery.
On the day of the surgery, please bring all your child’s X-rays with you.
If your child has any additional prescriptions for other illnesses that were prescribed to be taken before and/or after receiving anesthesia, please bring these medications with you Please keep the referral documents with you.
If there are any changes in the condition of your child (such as fever, runny nose, cough and vomiting) since the last control, please inform your physician of these instances.
Please take the operating room request document, prepared by the secretariat of Pediatric Surgery Outpatient Clinic.

Considerations at Outpatient Surgery Center

Please submit the operating room request document, the patient file, X-rays and medication, if any, to the secretariat of the outpatient surgery center.
Please stay in the waiting lounge until your child’s name is called.
Please enter with your child, when called.
Please accompany your child while she/he gets undressed and puts on special clothing.
Please make sure that there are no accessories such as watches, necklaces, rings, earrings, etc. on your child.
Please return to the waiting lounge, while the child is taken inside with a stretcher.
For the surgery information please keep up with the screen which is situated in the waiting lounge.
After being kept in the reanimation unit for a while after the surgery, the child will be taken to a different hall where his/her relative can be with him/her.
When the child is entirely awake, you will be allowed to leave the hospital.
Necessary information will be given about your child’s diet and control procedure after the surgery.
Please make your payments (if you do not have an official letter or have requested private procedure) at the teller’s desk at the hospital and acquire a receipt. Do not make any payments to any other officials or desks without a receipt.
If tissue sample is collected during the operation, please remember to submit it to the Pediatric Pathology unit.

Inpatient Surgeries

Apart from the above mentioned surgeries, treatments of congenital or acquired breast, gastro-intestinal tract, liver and biliary tract, reproductive and urinary tract problems, as well as organ transplantations, laparoscopic and thoracoscopic practices and certain endoscopic examinations are performed by hospitalizing patients.

Considerations before inpatient operations

Please contact Pediatric Surgery Outpatient clinic on the control date stated in the appointment.
Please bring your official referral documents and X-ray results with you, if any.
If your child has any additional prescriptions for other illnesses that were prescribed to be taken before and/or after receiving anesthesia, please bring these medications with you.
As the child will be hospitalized before surgery, please bring necessary clothes with you.
If there are any changes in the condition of your child (such as fever, runny nose, cough and vomiting) since the last control, please inform your physician of these instances..
Please have a control examination done and if any additional tests requested, please take these requests to the relevant departments.
Please make your payments (if you do not have an official letter or have requested private procedure) at the teller’s desk at the hospital and acquire a receipt. Do not make any payments to any other officials or desks without a receipt.
Please show the test results to your physician in the outpatient clinic.
After the control, the child will be admitted to Pediatric Surgery Service.

Considerations at Pediatric Surgery Service

Please submit the patient file, X-rays and patient admission form to secretary of the service.
Please consult with the service physician and nurse.
Please deliver the child's personal belongings (prosthesis, hearing aid, slippers, pajamas, spare underwear, diaper, feeding bottle, Walkman, radio, etc.) to the service nurse.
Please provide your contact address, telephone number and e-mail address, if any, and do know the contact phone numbers of the service.
Please inform the service about medications that the child is taking regularly, if any.
After the surgery, please obtain information from the service physician.
The patient will be hospitalized for 1 to 7 days, depending on the type of surgery performed.
Please make your payments (if you do not have an official letter or have requested private procedure) at the teller’s desk at the hospital and acquire a receipt. Do not make any payments to any other officials or desks without a receipt.
If a tissue samplesample is collected during the surgery, please follow the pathology report and contact Pediatric Surgery Outpatient Clinic when the report is issued.