Christopher P. Coppola
Alfred P. Kennedy, Jr.
Ronald J. Scorpio
Editors

2014

There are relatively few pediatric surgeons in the world. They tend to be concentrated in tertiary medical centers in metropolitan areas. Many large cities don’t have a pediatric surgeon of their own. This is a testament to the kind fact that most children will not need emergency surgery. Pediatric surgery, as a discipline, however is practiced by many more providers, in every hospital that has a child enter their doors. Every time a pediatrician diagnoses a child with abdominal pain, an emergency medicine physician cleans a child’s wound, or a nurse chooses a location for an intravenous line in an infant, pediatric surgical care is being delivered.