We are the combination of four hospitals: the General Hospital, the Children’s Hospital, the Women’s Hospital and the Traumatology, Rehabilitation and Burns Hospital. We are part of the Vall d’Hebron Barcelona Hospital Campus: a world-leading health park where healthcare plays a crucial role.
Patients are the centre and the core of our system. We are professionals committed to quality care and our organizational structure breaks down the traditional boundaries between departments and professional groups, with an exclusive model of knowledge areas.
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The commitment of Vall d'Hebron University Hospital to innovation allows us to be at the forefront of medicine, providing first class care adapted to the changing needs of each patient.
The Nutrition Support Unit is made up of a multidisciplinary, multiprofessional health team, composed of doctors from different specialties, nursing graduates, nutritionist dietitians, technical dieticians, nursing assistants and administrative staff. We are also a cross-cutting unit in that we support a range of other Departments. Our work in training and education is also significant.
We give nutritional and diet support to hospitalised patients across all clinical departments at the Hospital, and carry out follow-up monitoring at outpatient care for those patients who need it. We also provide outpatient care for patients referred from other healthcare areas of the Hospital and primary care centres that require specialist nutritional and dietary support. Patients requiring nutritional support are treated at the Horta Primary Care Centre.
The objective of this Unit is to offer comprehensive care in the diagnosis of sleep pathologies, in order to cover all areas: sleep pathology, hypersomnia, insomnia, parasomnia and circadian disorders, for patients of all ages. These disorders represent a public health problem, due to the increase in the number of cases and the social and health consequences they have.
Sleep disorders require a multidisciplinary approach when it comes to diagnosing and treating such problems. This has been accepted for some years now, both nationally and internationally. These pathologies are: excessive daytime sleep or hypersomnia, difficulty sleeping or insomnia and somnambulism, sleep talking, nightmares, which are part of the parasomnia group, or circadian alterations, which is when periodic biological variables are altered.
The Urology Department stands out for our use of the latest technology and hospital specialisation with our primary care techniques. The creation of fast stream to the Hospital, alongside protocols we share with primary care centres, mean our Department brings excellence, equity and efficiency to the public health system.
The Urology Department is a reference centre in complex pathologies for Catalonia and the rest of Spain. Headed since 2020 by Dr Enric Trilla, the Unit’s aim is to integrate care, teaching and research. Over recent years, we have incorporated the most modern, least invasive surgical techniques, such as laparoscopic surgery and robotics (Da Vinci).
The Hepatology department offers the best medical care and attention to patients with liver disease, for both hospitalised and out-patients, and inter-hospital consultations. The department is part of the new Digestive Diseases knowledge area, together with the Gastroenterology and Endoscopy departments.
The department works closely with the liver transplant programme, together with the Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgery and Digestive System Transplants departments. It also works with other units, such as the Haemophilia unit, the Endocrinology department, the adult congenital heart disease section in the Cardiology department, Interventional Radiology and Clinical Biochemistry, among others.
The Cardiology Department Haemodynamics Unit diagnoses and treats diseases of the coronary artery, other parts of the heart, such as valves, and congenital defects. The majority of these procedures are carried out by inserting a catheter into the radial artery in the arm. In a few cases, it is inserted into the arteries in the leg. These procedures are used to treat acute myocardial infarctions and chronic coronary artery obstructions. They also enable intervention within the heart to change malfunctioning heart valves or repair heart defects. These procedures are also carried out on children and adults with congenital diseases.
The Vall d’Hebron Haemodynamics Unit is a centre of excellence with extensive experience in coronary procedures. It has three theatres for operations, one of which is shared with the Arrhythmia Unit. Another one is used for hybrid procedures, with simultaneous participation of specialists in haemodynamics and experts in cardiac surgery.
The unit has the technology and materials needed to carry out any kind of procedure, such as:
The Endocrinology and Nutrition Service provides care for patients with endocrine gland diseases, which secrete hormones into the blood flow, as well as metabolism and all aspects relating to nutritional status at all stages of life. Thanks to translational research, carried out on our hospital campus, we can apply basic research to prevention and treatment, thus optimising patient care in terms of prevention, diagnosis and treatment.
In our department we treat diseases such as diabetes, morbid or severe obesity and the alterations derived from benign or malignant pathology of endocrine glands (ex. pituitary, thyroid, parathyroid, adrenal, ovary / testicle). We also diagnose and treat the chronic complications of diabetes, dyslipidaemia and other metabolic disorders. We have the following functional units:
The Oesophagogastric Surgery Unit of Vall d'Hebron University Hospital has a team of four professionals that offer comprehensive assistance to patients suffering from neoplastic, structural or functional pathology of the upper digestive tract, such as cancer, tumor, or hiatal hernia. We have the option of laparoscopic and robotic boardings for the treatment of these pathologies if it is estimated to be indicated.
We focus on treating the functional, structural and neoplastic pathology of the upper digestive tract.
We are specialists in the following surgical techniques:
Benign oesophageal pathology surgery
The Endocrine, Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery Unit is part of the General Surgery Department and has two main purposes: on the one hand, we handle tasks related to endocrine surgery, and, on the other, we also handle metabolic and bariatric issues.
We offer excellence in care for thyroid surgery, and our clinical research and the use of the latest techniques, such as recurrent nerve monitoring and visual amplification of the surgical field, mean the care provided for this pathology guarantees the highest standards, both in benign and malignant pathology.
As for parathyroid pathology, we always try to use minimally invasive techniques.
Adrenal pathology is addressed primarily through laparoscopic surgery, and the Unit has acquired extensive experience over the years.
The Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery specialty is defined as "the medical and surgical specialty dealing with the prevention, study, diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation of the oral cavity and face, as well as the cervical structures that are directly or indirectly related to them".
The care provided at the Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Department at the Vall d'Hebron University Hospital covers the following areas: outpatient visits, surgery, hospitalisation and accident and emergency services. Our Department is the only one in Catalonia with a 24-hour on-call system. This means we are a leading player in the Catalan public network.
The Abdominal Wall Surgery Unit is a part of the General Surgery Department and has a long tradition in this field. It deals with patients with generic pathologies and, above all, with complex wall pathologies, which is a field where many patients struggle to find an adequate solution to their problem when it is handled as a general surgery issue.
Vall d'Hebron University Hospital has a specific Unit in the field of abdominal wall surgery to help evolve from a specialist unit to a super-specialist unit. This evolution is due to the magnitude of the clinical-therapeutic information that is currently needed to treat general surgery and digestive tract patients in the most appropriate way. Abdominal wall surgery is fully defined and has its own section.
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