Overview

We are constantly looking to find better ways to care for your child. Our doctors seek out treatments and surgical techniques that are leading edge, but that also have proven benefits.

Clinical Advances

Some of our current clinical advances include:

• Abdominal Wall 
• Anesthesia 
• Appendix 
• Chest Wall 
• Intestine 
• Minimally Invasive Surgery 
• Outcomes 
• Surgical Oncology 

Research

Rather than looking at adult research studies to figure out how kids should be treated, we are doing our own pediatric research in many areas.

Through Seattle Children’s growing research program, we are discovering better ways to care for children before, during and after surgery. We are committed to bringing the new knowledge we gain from research to the bedside — so that our region's children receive the treatments and procedures that have the very best outcomes.

Here's a sampling of our current research projects:

• Outcomes for Gastroesophageal Reflux
  We are investigating whether surgery is the best method to treat gastroesophageal reflux disease.
• Outcomes for Pain-relieving Medicines
  We are studying the responses that infants and young children have to certain pain-relieving medicines.
• Outcomes for Regional Anesthesia
  In 2006, we began an international registry, or database, to record complications that might occur when ultrasound and other techniques are used to give children a type of anesthesia called "regional anesthesia."