The gastrointestinal surgery team at Children’s Minnesota provides next-generation care to newborns, infants, children, and adolescents from throughout the Upper Midwest. Our goal is to provide your child with the best possible surgery experience.
More than 2,000 gastrointestinal procedures are performed by our medical and/or surgical teams each year, including upper gastrointestinal endoscopies, 24-hour esophageal pH monitoring, colonoscopies, sigmoidoscopies, proctoscopies, liver biopsies, small bowel biopsies, esophageal dilation, placement of jejunal feeding tubes, endoscopic/percutaneous gastrostomy placements, and a wide range of therapeutic surgeries. At Children’s Minnesota:
- Your child’s surgery is performed by a team of professionals who specialize in the unique needs of children.
- Your child’s pain is managed by an interdisciplinary pain management team.
- Your child’s care includes the latest in surgical techniques, technology, and training.
- Your child’s care providers consider you to be part of your child’s care team, because you know your child best.
Conditions that may require gastrointestinal surgery
For many decades, Children’s Minnesota medical and surgical teams have served children with gastrointestinal, nutritional, and liver conditions. Procedures are performed to diagnose, monitor, and treat a wide variety of conditions. Some of the most common conditions treated at Children’s include:
- Circumcision
- Esophageal atresia
- Esophageal varices
- Foreign body in need of removal
- Gallstones
- Gastroesophageal reflux disease
- Gastroschisis
- Hernias
- Hirschsprung’s disease
- Imperforate anus
- Inflammatory bowel disease
- Intestinal atresia
- Malrotation of the intestines
- Liver disease
- Pancreatic insufficiency
- Pyloric stenosis
Educational materials
The following information may be helpful to families preparing specifically for gastrointestinal surgery. You may also view a searchable directory of general patient/family educational materials.
- Anesthesia: Questions and answers (Spanish and Somali translations available at link)
- Antegrade Continence Enema (ACE): Irrigation
- Antegrade Continence Enema (ACE): Surgery
- Barium enema
- Barium exam: Care at home
- Bowel preparation in the hospital before surgery
- Caudal block
- Colonoscopy: Care at home (Spanish translation available at link)
- Drinking liquids: Helpful hints for you and your child
- Eating and drinking before anesthesia or sedation (Somali and Spanish translation available at link)
- Endoscopy: Care at home (Spanish translation available at link)
- Epidural analgesia
- Fecal pouch emptying
- Gastric empty scan
- Gastroschisis
- Gastroesophageal reflux (Hmong and Spanish translations available at link)
- Gastroesophageal reflux scan
- Helping children cope with medical procedures
- Information for parents about integrative medicine
- Intravenous therapy
- Medicines: Using them safely (Spanish translation available at link)
- Metoclopramide (Reglan)
- Nasogastric tube feeding (Spanish translation available at link)
- Necrotizing enterocolitis (Spanish translation available at link)
- Nissen fundoplication
- Nitrous oxide for sedation (Spanish translation available at link)
- Pain in children and teens
- Pain in infants (babies)
- Patient-controlled analgesia
- Pyloric stenosis
- Sedation for a procedure (Spanish translation available at link)
- Sedation: extended observation
- Upper gastrointestinal series
- Wound care (Hmong, Spanish, and Somali translations available at link)
Locations
- Children’s Minnesota – Minneapolis
- Children’s Minnesota – St. Paul
Contact us
- If you are a family member looking for a Children’s Minnesota specialist in gastrointestinal surgery, please visit Find a doctor.
- If you are a health professional looking for a pediatric GI consultation or referral information, please call Children’s Minnesota Physician Referral at 1-866-755-2121 (toll-free).
