What are you looking for? Search Common searches: Departments, Hospitalisation, Professionals, Outpatient clinics, Health advice, Accreditations, Diseases, Diagnostic tests, Treatments, The birth of a child, Emergency, Visiting patients, Fulltext search Tipus de contingut Services and units Professionals Pathologies Health advices Health and wellness Diagnostic tests Treatments News Activities Centers - Any - Search Vall d’Hebron Hospital diagnosed the first case of HIV in Spain Vall d’Hebron diagnosed the first case of HIV in Spain: a 35-year-old man who was admitted with Kaposi’s sarcoma and other opportunistic infections. Dr Carmen Navarro, who was then head of the Neuropathology section in the Department of Pathological Anatomy, made the diagnosis. The power outage, caused by a fire, put the hospital’s response capacity to the test On 21 September 2007, a fire in the electrical system at Vall d’Hebron Hospital plunged the healthcare complex into darkness. It was a stressful situation, but the commitment of all staff allowed the hospital to keep functioning until the power supply was restored. Vall d’Hebron Hospital performed the first lung transplant in Catalonia and the second in Spain Today, lung transplants are fully integrated as a therapeutic option that patients can access as a routine treatment. However, in retrospect, it is probably one of the most significant advances in respiratory medicine in the past 50 years. Towards the humanisation of childcare Over the years, care practices have become more humanised, with an emphasis on parental involvement in close collaboration with nursing professionals. An open-door policy is also promoted, together with support for skin-to-skin contact – known as the kangaroo method – with both mothers and father Audrey was resuscitated at Vall d’Hebron after more than six hours of cardiac arrest due to severe hypothermia, thanks to ECMO The combined efforts of specialists in Intensive Care Medicine, Cardiac Surgery, and Anaesthesia and Resuscitation to apply the ECMO technique (extracorporeal membrane oxygenation) to reoxygenate the tissues and rewarm the body saved Audrey’s life. The hospital was inaugurated in 1955, improving access to healthcare for many people Vall d’Hebron Hospital was built at the foot of the Collserola hills, on state-owned land, and was inaugurated on 5 October 1955 under the name Residencia Sanitaria Francisco Franco. Vall d’Hebron achieves recognition as a Comprehensive Cancer Centre In recent years, Vall d’Hebron has received some of the most prestigious recognitions in the field of cancer patient care. Medical Oncology finally achieves departmental status It all began in 1996 when the hospital management decided that oncology should become a priority area due to the disease’s epidemiology: the progressive ageing of the population was favouring the emergence of different types of cancer. Professionals Alberto Valdivielso Blanco Soc el Cap de la Unitat de Servei TIC de l’Hospital Universitari Vall d’Hebron, rol que inclou la gestió del Servei d’Atenció a l’usuari IT, el suport al lloc de treball i la gestió d’infraestructura de sistemes. Professionals Pablo Eduardo Tobías Castillo I am a cardiologist at Vall d'Hebron Hospital. I have a particular interest in Clinical Cardiology, Valvular Heart Disease, Aortic Pathology, and Advanced Cardiac Imaging. I am also a predoctoral researcher at VHIR / UAB. Pagination Previous page ‹‹ Page 245 Next page ››