The Nuss Procedure for Pectus Excavatum

Sunken Chest Surgery

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Dr. Barry E. LoSasso is a board-certified pediatric surgeon who has worked with Dr. Donald Nuss at the Children’s Hospital of the King’s Daughter in Norfolk, Virginia since 1999, and has developed a successful Nuss program at the Rady Children's Hospital-San Diego in San Diego, California. The program has completely mirror-imaged the protocol established at King’s Daughter’s, with an on-going relationship with Dr. Nuss for continuing updates and improvements in our pectus program. 

Dr. LoSasso has performed over 540 cases of pectus excavatum (commonly known as sunken chest) with the Nuss procedure and removed over 250 Nuss bars thus far. He has trained a superior operating room staff and worked with the superb pain management team at Children’s to perfect the post-operative pain care provided. Another integral piece of the care is the nursing staff who is provided with educational training specifically tailored to the post-operative care of pectus defect patients. 

In over 540 Nuss patients, Dr LoSasso has had no bar migrations, and only 2 postoperative wound infections. These wound infections were treated with antibiotics, allowing one patient to complete his two year course with the bar, and then have his Nuss bar successfully removed. The second patient continued with his bar in place without further infectious issues after a two-week course of antibiotics. 

Dr. LoSasso successfully continues to maintain the perfection and stamp of approval in earning himself along with Rady Children's Hospital-San Diego in San Diego the West Coast Nuss center.

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