 at The Children’s Hospital is the second most experienced pediatric surgery program in New Jersey. Each year, we perform more than 2,000 pediatric surgical procedures, including life-saving emergency surgeries and routine procedures on an inpatient and outpatient basis.
Same-Day surgery is performed at The Cranmer Ambulatory Surgery Center, which features a full array of amenities specifically designed for children, including private pre- and post-operative rooms, a play room and child life services.
Conveniently located on the hospital campus just off the main lobby, The Cranmer Center has immediate access to the full services of The Children’s Hospital, if needed. Professional staff includes a the region’s only full –time anesthesiologist who is specially trained in pediatrics, along with registered pediatric nurses trained in advanced cardiac life support.
To relieve anxieties or fears about surgery, our Pediatric Preoperative Program, led by Child Life Specialists, features orientation tours, interactive presentations, medical play, and opportunities for children to ask questions.
Special training in pediatric surgery is important and our medical team is led by well-known and well-respected Section Chief Saad Saad, MD, who has nearly 30 years of experience and is board certified in both general and pediatric surgery.
The Children’s Hospital offers a variety of pediatric surgical procedures – from routine surgery to more complicated cases – for children of all ages, including:
- General surgery
- Surgery of congenital defects in newborns
- Laparoscopic surgery: including appendectomy, cholecystectomy, splenectomy, surgical treatment of gastro-esophageal reflux disease (fundoplication) and hernia
- Thoracic surgery: including surgery of the lung, diaphragm and mediastinum
- Surgical repair of pectus excavatum (PE or funnel chest) and pectus carinatum (PC or pigeon chest)
- Thoracoscopy a minimally invasive procedure for empyema and lung lesions
- Tracheal surgery: including tracheostomy, tracheal resection and reconstruction with cartilage graft
- Diagnostic and therapeutic rigid esophagoscopy and bronchoscopy including removal of a foreign body
- Excision of malignant tumors of chest and abdomen: including Wilms’ Tumor, neuroblastoma, and lymphoma
- Surgery of the head and neck: including thyroid, parathyroid and throyglossal duct cyst
- Surgery for removal of Baker’s cyst and ganglions
- Surgery for torsion of testes and undescended testes
Board certified in general surgery and in pediatric surgery, Dr. Saad holds two US patents for surgical devices and their application. Dr. Saad received his medical degree with honors from Cairo University Medical School, Cairo, Egypt. He completed his medical internship at Cairo University, his residency training in general surgery at UMDNJ in Newark, New Jersey and in pediatric surgery at MUSC in Charleston South Carolina. Dr. Saad also completed an ATLS (Advanced Trauma Life Support) course at University of Maryland.
Dr. Saad is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons and American Pediatric Surgical Association and American Academy of Pediatrics. He has written numerous articles that have appeared in prestigious peer-reviewed medical journals such as American Surgeon, Annals of Surgery, Journal of Trauma and
Journal of Pediatric Surgery.
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