Seattle Children’s Doctors Use 3D Printing to Help Train International Care Teams on Complex Surgery

Healthcare organizations are increasingly looking to incorporate the use of 3D-printed models to help improve outcomes for pediatric patients in need of very complex surgeries. Doctors at Seattle Children’s are now utilizing 3-D printed models created in the hospital’s Innovation Lab to train international care teams in a highly specialized procedure, known as a slide […]

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From Crisis to Happy Chaos: How Teamwork Made All the Difference

In 2019, Samantha and Kyle Hatch received wonderful news: Samantha was pregnant with identical twins. The couple already had two kids, Ben and Penny, and envisioned all of the roughhousing, road trips and happy mayhem that comes with four children. But everything changed when a routine ultrasound showed that one of the twins, William, had […]

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Brothers Born with Identical Craniofacial Condition Three Years Apart Thriving After Major Skull Surgeries at Seattle Children’s: ‘I Felt We Were in the Best Hands’

Each year, Seattle Children’s Craniofacial Center treats hundreds of children with craniosynostosis, a condition most families have never heard of, yet can affect approximately 1 in every 2,500 babies in the United States. That was the case for Kali Dempsey’s family, of Camano Island, WA, in early 2017. “We were sent to Seattle Children’s when […]

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An Awake Brain Surgery at Seattle Children’s Stops Jasmine’s Seizures

After a family trip to Finland last summer, Jasmine’s family became increasingly concerned about some unusual symptoms she was experiencing. What started as occasional numbness in her lip or left side of her face last spring had progressed to twitching, which the family later learned were increasingly strong seizures. Her family had been proactive in […]

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‘He’s Able to Be a Kid and Be Free’: DeAngelo Thrives After Complex Surgeries and Care at Seattle Children’s

9-year-old DeAngelo “DJ” has his dreams for the future all planned out. “DJ tells everyone that he wants to become a pediatric surgeon or a pediatric gastroenterologist one day,” explained Angela McCulloch. “He says that he plans to go to school at the University of Washington and work at Seattle Children’s to help kids like […]

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Seattle Children’s Trial Medication Stops Emree’s Seizures

It’s been 12 years, but Brandy Epling still chokes up at the traumatic memory of her firstborn’s birth. It was a difficult pregnancy, with preterm labor forcing a 33-day stay at a southwest Washington hospital for the mom-to-be, followed by months of bedrest. Ultrasounds revealed the baby’s brain was a bit bigger on the left […]

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Jiana Is Seizure Free After Epilepsy Surgery at Seattle Children’s Leads to the ‘Best Out of the Worst Situation’

When Jiana was born in August 2021, she appeared to be a typical, healthy newborn baby. “I still remember her pediatrician called her a textbook baby,” recalled Latika, Jiana’s mom. Unfortunately, that normalcy was short lived. On her first day home from the hospital, Jiana’s parents noticed their daughter was twitching. “We were first-time parents […]

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What to Know About a Neurosurgical Procedure to Treat Cerebral Palsy

March is Cerebral Palsy Awareness Month. Cerebral palsy is a condition that causes differences in how someone moves and controls their muscles. The differences are caused by an injury to a child’s developing brain. The brain injury can happen before, during or after birth. The injury does not change (it is non-progressive), but the effects […]

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‘I Can’t Wait to Swim!’ | How a Kidney Transplant Changed the Possibilities for 4-Year-Old Stella

“She has so much more energy and is eating so much more. She is also moving and walking more than she ever did.” Four-year-old Stella Allison has always loved telling jokes and playing dress up. With energy that is contagious and a smile that lights up a room, her mom Kyley Barthlow says Stella has […]

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