Pediatric Surgery

The Elliot is a destination center for maternal and child care. Elliot Hospital is the only birthing center in southern New Hampshire with an onsite level III NICU. We have a robust neonatal transport team supporting increasing volume and complexity in the NICU. We provide exceptional, complex prenatal care and consultation by collaboration between maternal fetal medicine, surgery and neonatology. We also offer prenatal consultation, NICU management of congenital problems and neonatal surgery.

Our pediatric emergency medicine department receives 27,000 visits annually, and it is the only dedicated pediatric ED in southern New Hampshire. Pediatric surgery works closely with the ED to provide on-call services and rapid follow-up appointments. For example, The Elliot has an expert team of ultrasound technicians who are specially trained in the evaluation of appendicitis by ultrasound, expediting the diagnosis and avoiding the radiation from CT scan. Not uncommonly, kids are in the hospital for less than six hours from entrance to the ED, to discharge home, after appendectomy. Kids do well and families are thrilled. Pediatric surgery provides same-day consultation in the office for children with urgent problems, seen in the ED or pediatrician’s office.

As the only inpatient care provider in southern New Hampshire, we offer collaborative inpatient and outpatient care to complex GI patients, including consultations, long-term follow-up care, endoscopy, surgical procedures, with pediatric radiology, anesthesiology and hospitalist support. We offer local care, ease of access, quality outcomes and referral relationships to Boston Children’s Hospital for extended specialized care.

We provide expert pediatric anesthesia and surgery care for children of all age ranges and complexities with dedicated pediatric anesthesiologists and nurse anesthetists. We offer local/regional anesthesia (i.e. spinal anesthesia) to provide major surgery without general anesthesia in infants, and minimally invasive surgery for ease of recovery and cosmesis. We have a fully-equipped operating room available for our patients 24/7 with dedicated perioperative nurses and support staff who love and enjoy caring for our patients and their families as we help guide them through a stressful time of their lives.

For certain conditions, we offer procedures that are done in the office as an outpatient, such as neonatal circumcisions (up to six weeks of age), tongue tie, excisional procedures, and more.

We offer circumcision and revisions, orchiopexy for undescended testes, inguinal hernia, hydroceles, varicocele. More complex urologic surgeries are provided by onsite pediatric urologists and nurse practitioners.

As a Level III pediatric trauma center, we have immediate availability to pediatric emergency medicine specialists, trauma surgeons, and orthopedic and neurosurgical specialists with expertise in the care of our young injured patients.

We work closely with a local dermatologist to help biopsy and remove suspicious moles and lesions from the skin. This can be done either in the office under local anesthesia, or in the operating room with sedation or general anesthesia, depending on the child’s and family’s needs and wishes.