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 Specialities Radiodiagnosis The department is made up of professionals from the Catalan Health Institute (ICS) and the Institute for Diagnostic Imaging (IDI). We use the most advanced techniques and help generalise their application to improve patient care and the quality of diagnostic and therapeutic examinations. Specialities Clinical Pharmacology The aim of the Clinical Pharmacology Department is to promote a reasoned, safe, effective and efficient use of medication at Vall d'Hebron University Hospital. Together with the Catalan Institute of Pharmacology Foundation, we are a WHO Collaborating Centre for Pharmacoepidemiology Research and I Specialities Immunology The Immunology Department performs routine and complex immune system diagnostic tests, assessing and interpreting them in a clinical context. For complex testing, we act as a reference laboratory for other Catalan Health Institute centres when these centres request our help. Specialities Echocardiogram and cardiac imaging unit The Echocardiography and Cardiac Imaging Unit in the Cardiology Department is responsible for doing the tests needed to diagnose the various heart diseases. These tests are done on heart patients, patients in other specialities and people in hospital. The unit also provides the service for primar Specialities Coronary care unit The CCU is a hospital unit dedicated to treating patients with critical cardiovascular conditions. The CCU has 10 hospital beds for critical patients and 4 for semi-critical patients, and plays an important role in healthcare, with around 1000 admissions per year. Two thirds of admissio Specialities Paediatric Hospitalisation and Hospital Paediatrics Unit The Paediatric Hospitalisation and Hospital Paediatrics Unit was recently created. It represents a considerable evolution in the care of paediatric patients admitted into the Maternity and Children's Hospital, replacing the former General Paediatrics Unit, in order to adapt to current care requir Specialities Paediatric emergency care The Unit is made up of a team of specialist paediatricians, paediatric nursing staff, paediatric resident doctors working in shifts during their training, nursing assistants, paediatric nursing residents, porters, administrative and cleaning staff who share work and experiences for the sole purpo Specialities Inherited Heart Diseases The Inherited Heart Diseases Unit of the Cardiology Department is primarily dedicated to patient care. This Unit specialises in managing all types of heart muscle diseases, focusing on inherited ones. Specialities Aortic pathology and Marfan syndrome Aortic diseases are relatively common, affecting 5% of the population over the age of 65. Abdominal affectation is much more common in the elderly, while affectation of the thoracic aorta is more likely to occur among younger people. The main problem is that due to the lack of symptoms Specialities Paediatric Surgery Paediatric surgery is the only medical speciality exclusively dedicated to diagnosis, treatment, and post-operative care for problems which occur during the life stage between the foetal period and adolescence and which need to be treated surgically. The surgical pathologies, physiology, doctor-p Pagination Previous page ‹‹ Page 63 Next page ››