Paediatrics

GKNM hospital was started as a maternity and child hospital. The department offers a comprehensive range of services in all pediatric subspecialities like Endocrinology, Pediatric surgery, Pulmonology, Neurology, Gastroenterology, Developmental Neurology, Cardiology and Cardiothoracic surgery.
Since its inception in 1974, thousands of children have been treated for a wide array of complex pediatric conditions with results at par with international standards.

• We perform balloon aortic, pulmonary and mitral valvotomy in all children including newborns and also we do device closure of ASD, VSD and PDA regularly. Apart from the interventions for those common ailments, we do balloon dilatation and stenting of coarctation of aorta and pulmonary stenosis and device closure of uncommon ailments such as aortopulmonary window, device or coil closure of fistulas such as coronary AV fistula, pulmonary AV fistula, aortopulmonary collaterals and other rare fistulas.
• We have structured foetal echocardiogram programme to identify the congenital heart diseases antenatally and follow those children till birth. Our neonatal intensive care unit is well equipped to deal those cardiac cases, including maintaining the ductus arteriosus by prostaglandins and performing emergency bedside atrial septostomy till such children are ready for definitive procedures.
• Our hospital has regular academic sessions for postgraduates, nurses and other paramedical staffs as a part of our continuous medical education programme. We publish papers in the indexed journals regularly. One of the landmark paper published in Pediatric Cardiology journal was device closure of VSD using muscular VSD device through retrograde technique. Our center is first among to start doing device closure of sub pulmonic VSD in the world.

• Primary Ciliary Dyskinesia diagnostics – 1st center in South India
• Cystic fibrosis diagnostics, including sweat testing
• Pediatric flexible bronchoscopy
• Primary immune deficiency and rare lung disease evaluation
• Allergic testing including skin prick test
• Lung function testing for children

• Got trained in the super speciality from hospitals in London and Manchester in the UK.
• Has expertise in managing
  • Gastro esophageal reflux disease, cow’s milk protein allergy and other food allergies
  • Management of recurrent abdominal pain and functional gastrointestinal disorders
  • Investigation and treatment of chronic diarrhoea and PR bleeding
  • Work up of childhood liver disease and prolonged neonatal jaundice
  • Treatment of Pancreatitis
  • Performing Upper GI endoscopy, Variceal banding, sclerotherapy, Gastrostomy Feeding tube, colonoscopy and polypectomy

• Neonatal Resuscitation
• Postnatal care to stable newborn infant
• Comprehensive care of new bor gestation <34 weeks / birthweight < 2kg
• Full range of respiratory support
• Surgical repair of congenital / acquired conditions
• Post surgical care
• Management of babies with complex congenital heart diseases needing intervention / surgery
• Management of sepsis
• Management of hyperbilirubinemia / IEM / Endocrine problems
• Routine newborn screening for thyroid, hearing disorders
• ROP screening for all pattern
• Isolation facilities for neonates with infections
• Breast feeding promotion
• Counseling
• Immunization of newborn infant
• Retrieval of neonate from referring hospital < 60 km radius