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The Bereavement Journey and Tissue Donation Conference

This seminar focuses on providing compassionate, comprehensive support for patients, families, and care teams when navigating conversations about autopsy and tissue donation as well as anticipatory grief, coping with poor prognoses, and bereavement.

Treatments

Our therapeutic capabilities are some of the most advanced in the world. From the child with rumination syndrome or gastroparesis to those with food allergies or constipation, we are blazing the trail to best possible outcomes for our patients.

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Percutaneous Gastrostomy (PEG) Tube Placement & Care

Some children need a tube placed in their stomach to allow them to get adequate nutrition if they cannot take in enough by mouth or if they have a swallowing problem.

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Polypectomy

Polyps are relatively common in children. As part of both the evaluation and treatment of polyps, they are removed endoscopically by polypectomy.

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Sclerosis of Esophageal Varices

Sclerotherapy is performed by injecting a medication into the varix that causes it to scar. If the varix is scarred, it cannot bleed.

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Banding of Esophageal Varices

Sometimes varices can bleed or be at high risk of bleeding. One way to control this is to put a “band” on the vein so that it clots and then will not bleed.

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Double Balloon Enteroscopy (DBE)

Double balloon enteroscopy (DBE) allows for direct visualization of the entire small intestine with the ability to obtain biopsies, to remove polyps, or to treat a bleeding site.

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Neurogenic Bowel Regulation

A child who has a neurogenic bowel cannot control when he or she has a bowel movement. Bowel control may not be possible, but bowel regulation can be done by following a daily schedule.

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Neurogenic Bowel: Bowel Training

Bowel training is achieved when your child has a bowel movement in the potty at the same time every day and therefore has few bowel accidents.