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Pediatric Acute Wound Service (PAWS)

For appointments call 314.454.KIDS or 800.678.KIDS
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Coming Soon!  PAWS West at Missouri Baptist opening in March, 2010.

The staff of the Pediatric Acute Wound Service (PAWS) are specially trained in burn and wound care, and treat children in the hospital and as outpatients. With PAWS, children who do not necessarily need to be hospitalized can have their wound issues addressed daily or several times a week in an outpatient setting.

 

The PAWS team works to evaluate each child’s needs, including areas such as nutrition, child life services, psychological services, occupational/physical therapy, and pain management, to coordinate a specialized treatment plan.


Appointments are made by referral only from a physician.

 

Take a virtual tour of PAWS


Types of wounds treated:

  • Burns
  • Abscesses
  • Pressure sores
  • Surgical wounds
  • Wounds caused by trauma
  • Pilonidal cysts
  • Gastrostomy site breakdown


Your child may also be a candidate for wound care treatment if he/she has a wound that has not started to heal in two weeks or is not completely healed in six weeks.


Learn about Burn and Wound Care and Prevention.

St. Louis Children's Hospital is affiliated with Washington University School of Medicine.

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