A Shalom Foundation General Surgery Team from Vanderbilt Children’s Hospital will travel to Guatemala City February 6-13, 2010 to provide surgical care to children through the Pediatric Foundation Hospital. We seek to provide surgical procedures for poor children who would not otherwise receive treatment. Currently Shalom Foundation works through a network of doctors and advisors in Guatemala to identify pediatric candidates for surgery, to provide parents/guardians with the information they need to attend a screening clinic in Guatemala City and receive these surgical procedures. A list of procedures to be performed are listed below. When The Moore Center for Children Health is opened in 2010 surgical teams will work out of this facility.
General Surgery Trip, Guatemala City, February 6-13, 2010: Open to all children living in poverty, without other options for care.
In-country organizations and US organizations working in Guatemala can contact Allison Bender at abender@theshalomfoundation.org to seek additional information and stream their children into this surgical process.
Proposed case list for pediatric general surgery trip to Guatemala, Feb 2010.
By body region (not all-inclusive):
- Skin, scalp, soft tissue
- Large nevi
- Subcutaneous masses
- Vascular malformations
- Wounds
- Masses
- Head and neck
- Branchial cleft cysts/sinuses/fistulae
- Thyroid masses (cysts, nodules, tumors)
- Thyroglossal duct cysts
- Lymphadenitis
- Breast
- Masses
- Airway & esophagus
- Trachea: stenosis, malacia
- Esophagus: caustic injury/stricture/stenosis/atresia/duplications/achalasia/reflux
- Chest
- Mediastinal masses
- Empyema
- Lung lesions
- Patent ductus
- Diaphragm
- Hernia
- Eventration
- GI tract
- Gallbladder: stones, infection
- Stomach: foreign bodies, ulcers, tumors, obstruction, feeding access
- Intestine: stenosis, atresia, malrotation, intraluminal, anorectal malformation
- Liver & pancreas: stones, tumors, cysts
- Spleen: cysts, tumors, enlargement, sickle cell sequestration
- Abdominal wall
- Inguinal, ventral,umbilical, & incisional hernias
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