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.
Below we will list the departments and units that form part of Vall d’Hebron Hospital and the main diseases that we treat. We will also make recommendations based on advice backed up by scientific evidence that has been shown to be effective in guaranteeing well-being and quality of life.
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We cannot think of children as miniature adults, their bodies are growing and developing until they point they reach skeletal maturity. Medical professionals treating diseases of and injuries to the bones, joints and muscles of children must be experts in the specific nature of said diseases and injuries. Paediatric Orthopaedic Surgery is the subspecialty that is deals with these problems in children.
Between childhood and adolescence, there are many varied osteoarticular processes that children may experience. If we look at age, it is obvious that the issues faced by babies vary greatly from those faced by adolescents. So, while congenital abnormalities and postural deformities are most common in babies, young children present more disorders in gait and deformities of the limbs. Later on, when the children are older, several pathologies of the hip and spine can appear. Once a child reaches adolescence, fractures are the most common issue.
The Paediatric Heart Surgery Department is one of the oldest in Spain, with more than 5,000 operations performed with extracorporeal circulation and more than 40 years of activity behind it. We are a national reference centre for the treatment of congenital heart disease, and can offer surgery for all kinds of diseases.
The pathologies we treat at our Department all present with their own specific traits. This means the simplest forms of heart disease can happen while presenting hardly any symptoms. In contrast, the most complex forms appear during the neonatal period in the form of heart failure and cyanosis (lack of oxygenation).
The Gynaecological Oncology and Lower Genital Tract Pathology Unit is a part of the Gynaecology Department. It treats all genital cancer diseases in the Hospital's catchment area, as well as more complex cases with requirements that exceed the capacity of other health centres in Catalonia.
Our mission is to provide effective, efficient and quality healthcare in the treatment of diseases. Our guiding principle is comprehensive care, where treatment, teaching and research combine to offer the public the highest quality competitive service.
Our Unit is one of the most active in the country, and is a reference in gastroenterology, that is, the digestive system, both as part of the Catalan Health Service and the Catalan Health Institute (ICS) and the rest of Spain, where we lead several educational and research projects.
Our centre’s Paediatric Gastroenterology Unit was founded in the early 70s by Dr Ramon Tormo, who was joined soon after by Dr Dámaso Infante. Together, they were pioneers in Paediatric Gastroenterology in Spain, and for more than three decades they consolidated this unit as one of the most recognised and prestigious nationwide.
The main objective of the Pharmacy Department is the safe and efficient use of medication with the utmost excellence. Our Department supports care activity and is recognised as a collaborating centre of the Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP), thanks to our role in preventing medication errors.
Our Department offers a consolidated portfolio of services, and we have a pharmaceutical team that monitors all registered prescriptions and pharmaceutical treatments.
Memòria Servei de Farmàcia 2022
Memòria Servei de Farmàcia 2023
The Thoracic and Airway Surgery Unit is part of the Paediatric Surgery Department, and emphasises the treatment of congenital pulmonary malformations of the thoracic wall through the application of minimally invasive orthopaedic surgery techniques in selected cases.
Our unit coordinates a multidisciplinary team for treating paediatric airways. We have a great deal of experience in the treatment of infections due to pus accumulated in the lungs (complicated parapneumonic empyema). We coordinated the first multicentre trial published in the world, meaning a clinical trial with several research centres or hospitals and with randomised patients, to compare video-assisted thoracoscopy with treatment with fibrinolytic drugs.
At the Plastic Surgery and Burns Department, we treat diseases of the whole human anatomy and specialise in transplant techniques for the face and extremities, tissue regeneration and reparative microsurgery and more. Constantly striving for innovation, we are a pioneering Department internationally in total facial transplants and stem cell treatment of burn scars.
Constantly striving for innovation, the Plastic Surgery and Burns Department was a pioneering service internationally in total facial transplants and stem cell treatment of burn scars.
At the Plastic Surgery and Burns Department, we handle congenital or acquired diseases that affect soft tissue and bone, traumatisms and large burns, as well as specialising in face, limbs, grafts, treatment of tumours and significant deformities and regeneration of tissues and reparative microsurgery, and more.
Neonatal Surgery is the sub-discipline within paediatric surgery that deals with surgically treating congenital and acquired illnesses in newborns and infants up to one month old.
This is a highly complex sub-speciality that only exists at tertiary paediatric centres. The past few decades have brought about important advances, thanks to improvements in diagnostic techniques, neonatal intensive care and anaesthetics, and surgical techniques and materials. These have radically changed the prognosis for both birth defects and acquired surgical pathologies in newborns.
Neonatal surgery requires detailed knowledge of complex pathologies in patients who also have special conditions that are different from other paediatric patients. The Neonatal and Foetal Surgery Unit covers practically every surgical neonatal pathology, and it is a reference centre both nationally and on a European level. It is part of ERNICA, the European Reference Network (ERN) for Rare Inherited and Congenital Digestive Disorders. In recent years, the Unit has been firmly committed to introducing minimally invasive surgical techniques, achieving excellent results.
The Paediatric Maxillofacial Surgery Unit is proud of its extensive experience in the treatment of complex cranioencephaly malformations. We should also highlight the treatment of paediatric maxilofacial tumours.
Our team is made up of paediatric surgeons who are a part of the Paediatric Surgery Department, and surgeons from the Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Department.
At the Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgery and Transplant Department, we dedicate ourselves to hepatic (liver), pancreatic and biliary surgery, as well as cancer surgery. This mainly involves surgery related to the surgical and onco-surgical treatment of tumours or liver metastases, liver and bowel transplants in children and adults, and intestinal transplants. Our Children’s Liver Transplant Programme is the only one of its kind in Catalonia, and one of just five in Spain. Our excellent results make us a national leader.
The Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgery and Transplant Department is highly specialised, and is independent of the General Surgery Department, which is not very common in general surgery departments. We are organised into two sections: one section devoted mainly to liver surgery and liver and intestine transplants, and another aimed at pancreatic surgery and advanced laparoscopic surgery.
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