Pediatric Surgery
Pyloric Stenosis
Dr. Bhargava Mullapudi, Pediatric Surgeon at Cincinnati Children’s, and Dr. Gillian Goddard, Pediatric Surgery Research Fellow at Cincinnati Children's, joins Dr. Rae Hanke to review the essentials of pyloric stenosis in this videocast.
Sections
- Introduction (00:00)
- What is pyloric stenosis? (00:27)
- How do patients with pyloric stenosis present? (00:54)
- Differential diagnosis for non-bilious vomiting in an infant (01:34)
- Diagnostic workup for pyloric stenosis (02:09)
- Electrolyte abnormalities associated with pyloric stenosis (03:06)
- Treatment of pyloric stenosis (04:08)
- Operative management of pyloric stenosis (06:04)
- Accessing adequacy of pyloromyotomy (08:07)
- Post-operative complications (08:38)
- Management of a mucosal perforation (09:10)
- Post-operative feeding (09:53)
- Management of persistent post-operative vomiting (10:24)
- Clinical takeaways (11:34)