Standardization of Surgical Practice in Pediatric Surgery: Challenges and Future Lines of Action
A special issue of Children (ISSN 2227-9067). This special issue belongs to the section "Pediatric Surgery".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 10 July 2025 | Viewed by 407
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Dear Colleagues,
Pediatric surgery is a field of great technical complexity, both because of patients' intrinsic characteristics and the limited technical resources available to perform the procedures. Together with the low casuistry of the pathologies we treat, this has led to enormous variability in the surgical management of patients since the beginning of this specialty. The progressive evolution we are experiencing in technical and scientific terms now opens the door to a paradigmatic shift where we can standardize the surgical practice of our patients, improving overall outcomes. Through this Special Issue, we would like to encourage you to share your experience with the standardization of pediatric surgical practice in different environments and with different pathologies, which will undoubtedly lay the foundations for the pediatric surgery of tomorrow.
We thank you in advance for your contributions.
Dr. Javier Arredondo Montero
Dr. Michele Torre
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- pediatric surgery
- enhanced recovery after surgery
- standard of care
- surgical standardization
- protocol
- guidelines
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