Pediatric patients who are candidates for surgical and medical procedures require anesthetic services which will guide them safely through the procedure as well as afford their parents the knowledge that highly competent personnel will perform such care.
Parents entrust the pediatric anesthesiologist with their child and expect us to provide our expertise. Our team of pediatric anesthesiologists pride themselves in this important task, providing first rate medical care for your child.
The Children’s Hospital has produced a video to help young children and their parents prepare for surgery. Click here to view the video or contact Child Life Services at 732-923-6525 for a copy of the DVD.
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Our care team includes nursing, child life and technical staff specially trained to offer supportive care. We are proud to have anesthesiologists who have attained advanced education, training and clinical experience in providing care to the many newborns, infants and children who require their services.
By virtue of their advanced education, increased training and additional clinical experience, our physicians can administer anesthesia care to the many healthy patients as well as the sickest ones. From the most premature newborns to the healthiest teenagers, our pediatric anesthesiologist take care of those with surgical emergencies, complex birth defects and medical conditions that typically present in the pediatric population. The knowledge and experience our team of specialists possess mitigate the stress that children and their parents have when we are needed.
As the role of anesthesiologists has expanded in recent years, the pediatric anesthesiologists at the Children’s Hospital are perioperative experts, providing medical care to patients. From meeting the patient and parents before their procedure through the postoperative phase where control of pain and support of vital functions are paramount issues, the pediatric anesthesiologist is providing direction and managing care.
Michael Flashburg, MD
Section Head, Pediatric Anesthesia
The head of the Section of Pediatric Anesthesia for more than 20 years, Dr. Flashberg is also the former director of the medical center’s Anesthesia Residency Program. Dr. Flashberg received his medical degree from The State University of New York (SUNY) Downstate Medical Center. He completed his pediatric anesthesia fellowship at Children’s Hospital National Medical Center in Washington DC and his anesthesiology residency at Long Island Jewish-Hillside Medical Center.
Bing Du, MD
Dr. Du received his medical degree from Sun Yat-Sen University of Medical Sciences in Guangzhou, China and is also a graduate of Nanjing Railway Medical College in Nanjing, China. Dr. Du completed his fellowship training in critical care medicine SUNY/University at Buffalo campus and residency in anesthesiology included rotating throughout eight SUNY-affiliated hospitals. Dr. Du completed his pathology residency at The Brooklyn Hospital Center in Brooklyn, NY and his surgical internship through Mount Sinai School of Medicine’s program at North General Hospital in New York City.
Susan Friedman, MD
A graduate of the University of Rochester, Dr. Friedman received her medical degree from Mount Sinai Medical School in New York City. She completed her anesthesia residency and fellowship in pediatric and obstetrical anesthesia at New York University Medical Center. A Diplomat, American Board of Anesthesiology, Dr. Friedman has published a number of articles in Anesthesia & Analgesia and is a member of several professional societies.
Babatungi Omotoso, MD, FAAP
Board Certified in anesthesia, Dr. Omotoso received his medical degree from College of Medicine, University of Ibadan in Ibadan, Nigeria and completed his residency training in pediatrics and anesthesia at the SUNY Health Sciences Center in Brooklyn, New York.
Vijaya Para, MD
A board certified anesthesiologist, Dr. Para received her medical degree from Dr. Bdkar Medical College in Bangalore, India. She completed her internship in medicine at Overlook Hospital in New Jersey and her residency in anesthesiology at NYU Medical Center in New York City.
Lopa Shah, MD
Dr. Shah is a board certified anesthesiologist and a Fellow the Royal College of Anaesthetists, London. She received her medical degree from Topiwala National Medical College in India. Dr. Shah completed her anesthesia residency at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital in New York, her fellowship in pediatric anesthesiology at Children’s Hospital of New York and her internal medicine internship at St. Luke’s Roosevelt Medical Center.
Our services include administering general anesthesia, regional anesthesia, injections for postoperative acute pain, moderate and deep sedation for medical, radiological and oncologic procedures requiring cooperation and a motionless child including spinal tap, catheter insertion, scanning procedures (MRI, CAT scan), GI endoscopies, bronchoscopies and radiation therapy. In addition, we offer consultative services to assess perioperative risk, airway assessment and postoperative pain control.
Before surgery begins, we evaluate the patient for the presence of complex medical problems and assess anesthetic risk. During surgery, the pediatric anesthesiologist’s role is critical. The duties defining the anesthesiologist in the operating room include: continually assessing the anesthetized state of the patient; monitoring and controlling the patient's vital life functions -- heart rate and rhythm, breathing, blood pressure, body temperature and body fluid balance; and controlling the patient's pain and level of unconsciousness to make conditions ideal for a safe and successful surgery. In the recovery room, anesthesiologists will evaluate and monitor patients as they emerge from unconsciousness to begin to control their own functions. With continual support from the nursing and child life staff, the pediatric patient is always monitored for complications and inadequate pain control. The anesthesiologist will decide when your infant or child is safely recovered from the anesthesia to go home.
To learn more, contact our Anesthesiology department
at 723-923-7250.
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