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)
