Pediatric Surgery is a surgical subspecialty that focuses on the surgical management of children.<\/p>\n
A pediatric surgeon ensures optimal pediatric surgical care of patients and their families. These subspecialists promote excellence in the surgical management of the pediatric patient population, while leading the co-management of their patients at the pediatric hospital wards. Pediatric surgeons promote a supportive health care environment for patients, staff, and other physicians.<\/p>\n
At the academic setting, Pediatric Surgeons provide rich user friendly venues for the dissemination of up-to-date knowledge. They offer high quality continuing education to their peers, residents, and medical students. Through research they promote the discovery, innovation and improvement of care of their patients.<\/p>\n
Pediatric surgeons develop standards of care for infants and children and become advocates of public policies on the surgical care of children.<\/p>\n
Pediatric surgeons have excelled at the Puerto Rico Medical Center. Four state-of-the-art Operating Suites have been designed and created at the Pediatric University District Hospital to serve children in the Island and the Caribbean Basin.<\/p>\n
V\u00edctor Ortiz, MD<\/strong> Pediatric Surgery is a surgical subspecialty that focuses on the surgical management of children. A pediatric surgeon ensures optimal pediatric surgical care of patients and their families. These subspecialists promote excellence in the surgical management of the pediatric patient population, while leading the co-management of their patients at the pediatric hospital wards. Pediatric surgeons promote…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-158","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","description-off"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/md.rcm.upr.edu\/surgery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/md.rcm.upr.edu\/surgery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/md.rcm.upr.edu\/surgery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/md.rcm.upr.edu\/surgery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/md.rcm.upr.edu\/surgery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/md.rcm.upr.edu\/surgery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/158\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/md.rcm.upr.edu\/surgery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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