Our Services

The Department of Paediatrics and Adolescent Medicine has the following focus areas:

• General pediatrics and youth medicine
• Medical treatment of newborns and premature infants and intensive care (neonatology, Level 1)
• Blood disorders and cancer (pediatric hematology and oncology)
• Childhood convulsions (epilepsy) and disorders of the nervous system (neuropaediatrics)
• Congenital metabolic diseases
• Nutritional medicine
• Renal and urinary disorders as well as hypertension (pediatric nephrology)
• Diseases of the heart and blood vessels (pediatric cardiology)
• Diseases of the gastrointestinal tract and liver (pediatric gastroenterology)
• Lung and respiratory tract diseases and allergies (pediatric pulmonology and allergology)
• Disorders of hormone metabolism (pediatric endocrinology and diabetology)
• Interdisciplinary care for newly-operated patients in collaboration with the operative disciplines of the Municipal Clinic

The department has at its disposal comprehensive apparatus and equipment:

• Modern intensive care unit with 12 ventilation stations for premature infants, newborns, children and adolescents
• Sonography equipment for all body parts
• Echocardiography
• Long-term ECG
• Long-term blood pressure measurement unit
• Uroflow measuring station
• Its own X-ray and ECG department
• Its own laboratory with 24-hour readiness, specially designed for examinations of children
• Equipment for endoscopy of the gastrointestinal tract
• pH-balance metry
• Exhalation tests to determine food intolerances
• Lung function tests
• Bronchoscopy
• Two digital EEG derivation stations with video recording, additionally with a digital long-term EEG
• EEG, amplitude-integrated
• Measuring station for neurophysiology (evoked potentials, nerve conduction velocity)
• Videomonitoring
• Cryotherapy of hemangiomas
• Hearing tests for premature infants and newborns (Otoacoustic emissions, OAE, automated brainstem audiometry, AABR)