Best Paediatric surgeon in Brisbane
Dr David Bade
Paediatric surgeon
Dr Ivan Astori
Paediatric surgeon
paediatric orthopaedics. He has a special interest in reconstructive surgery of the hip and knee in adults, particularly the use of osteotomies (bone redirection) to preserve these joints and avoid the need for joint replacement. He has an active practice in knee and hip replacement surgeries including unicompartmental knee replacement.
Dr Bhavesh Patel
Paediatric surgeon
neonatal, gastrointestinal surgery and urology including hypospadias. Dr Patel was brought up in New Zealand and trained in the major centres within Auckland, Wellington and Hamilton before moving across to Australia and completing his training in Brisbane and Sydney. He was appointed as a staff specialist paediatric surgeon at Royal Children’s Hospital, Mater Children’s Hospital and Nambour General Hospital in February 2011.
Dr Craig McBride
Paediatric surgeon
in Brisbane. He is a researcher, medical educator, editor and author.
Dr. Mark Shillington
Paediatric surgeon
knee, shoulder, and hip conditions. He has a special interest in paediatric and adult sports injuries. Dr Shillington initially completed a physiotherapy degree at The University of Queensland in 2001 and then progressed to attain his medical degree in 2005. In 2009 he was awarded a Masters of Engineering by Queensland University of Technology for research into the biomechanics of orthopaedic implants.
Dr Deborah Bailey
Paediatric surgeon
in Burns and Paediatric Surgery before developing the first paediatric surgical service on Gold Coast and Tweed Heads 14 years ago (with inreach to Mater Childrens Hospital). Associate Professor at Bond and Griffith Medical Schools. Chair of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons Board of Paediatric Surgery for six years. Inaugural chair of Queensland Clinical Services Framework surgical Services for Children committee.
Dr Jonathan Askew
Paediatric surgeon
School. He completed his specialty training in Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery (ENT Surgery), in Queensland. He spent an additional Fellowship year in Oxford, UK, gaining further expertise in endoscopic sinus surgery and paediatric ENT surgery.
Dr Sheanna Maine
Paediatric surgeon
Orthopaedics and Limb Reconstruction. Sheanna currently operates at North West Private and Brisbane Private Hospitals. Her Public appointments include the Queensland Children’s Hospital as a Paediatric Orthopaedic Surgeon Brisbane and at Redcliffe Hospital in Adult Lower Limb Orthopaedic surgery.
What is pediatric surgery?
Pediatric surgery is a comparatively young surgical field. An independent specialist in pediatric surgery has existed since 1992. Although there was a specialist in pediatric surgery in the GDR as early as 1955, a sub-specialization in pediatric surgery for surgeons in the Federal Republic was only possible since 1968.
The advanced training is regulated in the state-specific advanced training regulations and is based on the requirements of the German Medical Association. A further training period of at least 6 years is required to obtain the title of specialist doctor. During this time, in addition to basic surgical and pediatric knowledge, the entire spectrum of pediatric surgery in theory and practice must be learned.
The field of pediatric surgery is extremely diverse due to the subgroups included. In addition to the fields of general surgery, neurosurgery, plastic surgery, thoracic surgery, tumor surgery, trauma surgery and visceral surgery, a number of other disciplines such as gastroenterology, ear, nose and throat medicine, pediatric and adolescent medicine and urology are part of the daily work. It is important to pay attention to the special features of children and to appropriately adapted therapy strategies. In addition to treating the children, it is important to include the parents in the entire process in a suitable manner, to obtain consent and to do educational work.
From our point of view, pediatric surgery is the most fascinating subject in medicine! We pediatric surgeons look after children and adolescents of all age groups – and that “from curls to socks”. While the other surgical disciplines are broadly divided (trauma surgery, “abdominal” surgery, “lung” surgery, urology, operative gynecology, etc.), pediatric surgery encompasses almost all surgical diseases in people up to the age of 16.
The focus of the work of the pediatric surgeon is undoubtedly the correction of congenital malformations. But even premature babies from the 24th week of pregnancy with a body “weight” of almost 500 grams often have serious illnesses that can only be treated surgically. Up to the first year of life, all children should definitely be operated on by a children’s surgeon. Of course, we are of the opinion that beyond the first year of life, all conditions (environment, anesthesia, care, surgeon) must be tailored to the patient and recommend visiting a pediatric medicine facility well into adolescence.
Pediatric trauma surgery (pediatric trauma) is also a focus of pediatric surgeons and a real specialty because the growing skeleton has a number of peculiarities that the attending physician must take into account. Even the assessment of an X-ray image of the child has to be learned and trained, because the cartilaginous growth plates can lead to confusion and misdiagnosis.
Paediatric Surgeon :
A pediatric surgeon fulfills the role of general , visceral , thoracic and plastic surgeon at the same time when looking after his small patients (children from birth up to the age of sixteen) . His field of work is therefore very extensive and ranges from congenital or acquired defects to broken bones to tumor diseases. The focus is always on the patient’s entire body, because childhood diseases often affect several organ systems and must therefore be treated as a whole.
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