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A Cut Above

Every day, surgeons at Seattle Children’s use the latest, most advanced surgical techniques to make the burden of illness and injury a little lighter for children and their families. Meet four surgeons who are taking a step beyond to tackle vexing problems.
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Blinky's 5th Birthday 

Blinky the Surgeonator's Fifth Birthday

Seattle Children's Hospital celebrated the fifth anniversary of its pediatric robotics program in 2011 with a surprise birthday party for the hospital's da Vinci robot, thrown by the other devices in the operating room. The robot, recently named Blinky the Surgeonator by Seattle Children's patients, received gifts of WD-40 and a silver-plated robot cake at the party. 
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Seattle Children's Hospital Providers Transplant Hope to One 3-Year-Old Patient

When Destiny was born, doctors detected that her small bowel was blocked because the lumen of the bowel was not formed. She has undergone about a dozen surgeries and in January 2011 received a small bowel transplant at Seattle Children’s.
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Building a mobile surgery robot 

Building a Mobile Surgery Robot

Seattle Children's surgeon Dr. Tom Lendvay is helping UW engineers develop a portable surgical system that can be operated remotely.
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Bettering, and Beating, the Odds

At Seattle Children’s, teams of specialists, innovative techniques and the most advanced medical technologies combine to give babies with life-threatening diaphragmatic hernias a chance to breathe, and thrive.
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Weighing the Options

Seattle Children’s surgeons play a leading role in evaluating whether surgery is the best treatment option.
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Robotic Surgery

Seattle Children’s uses the da Vinci® robotic system to perform robot-assisted laparoscopy (RAL), a type of minimally invasive surgery that has benefits for patients and surgeons alike.
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Q-and-A with Jenny Kreiss, RN, MN, CPNP, Nurse Practitioner

Jenny talks about what it's like to work at Seattle Children’s.
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Children’s Story Project

Through the Children’s Story Project, our community shares personal experiences, memories and reflections about the hospital. Read 100 years of stories, told one person at a time.
Featured story: Tim's Hernia
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Pain, Pain Go Away

Seattle Children’s is using regional anesthesia to improve kids' surgical experiences by reducing their need for narcotic pain killers and by better controlling their postoperative pain and nausea.
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Q-and-A with George Drugas

Dr. Drugas talks about what he likes about working in pediatric surgery at Seattle Children’s, what drew him here and what he plans to accomplish.
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