Handbook of Pediatric Surgery 2026: Systematic Approach to Operative Decision-Making Across Neonatal, Congenital, and Oncologic Conditions for Clinical Fellows

The neonate is six hours old, bilious emesis has started, and the next sixty minutes will determine whether this child keeps their entire bowel or loses it. Misread the imaging, delay the upper GI series, or hesitate on the Ladd procedure, and midgut volvulus converts a salvageable gut into irreversible short bowel syndrome. This handbook delivers a structured operative decision framework across 27 chapters of pediatric surgical disease, built around the exact clinical thresholds that separate good outcomes from preventable disasters. INSIDE THIS BOOK: - The Pediatric Operative Decision Atlas - a proprietary five-part decision framework embedded in every major condition, giving you the trigger, the threshold, the trap logic, and the clinical anchor for each operative call - Time-critical thresholds that save bowel and organs - from the 60-day Kasai window to the six-hour torsion clock to the 21-day burn rule - Trap logic that names the errors before you make them - the breast milk jaundice assumption that delays biliary atresia diagnosis, the CT grade that tempts unnecessary splenectomy, the scrotal biopsy that upstages a paratesticular tumor - Nonoperative management protocols backed by evidence - when observation requires more discipline than operating - Age-based decision architecture spanning fetal intervention through adolescent trauma, organized by how patients actually present - A consolidated Master Atlas with rapid-access tables indexed by organ system, clinical scenario, and emergency urgency Written for pediatric surgery fellows, general surgery residents, pediatric surgeons, neonatologists, emergency physicians, and advanced practice providers who make operative decisions for children. Order now and bring a decision-ready framework to every pediatric surgical consultation you will face.