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.
At the Emergency Department of the Maternity and Children's Hospital, we care for paediatric, gynaecological and obstetric emergencies.
At the Gynaecological and Obstetric Emergency Department, we provide care for both gynaecological and obstetric emergencies. To do so, we have a professional team of gynaecology and obstetrics doctors. We also boast a number of anaesthetists, residents, midwives, nurses, assistants and paediatricians. We are open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
The Paediatric Urology Unit is a part of the Paediatric Surgery Department, and mainly deals with kidney and urinary tract abnormalities in children and adolescents. We offer minimally invasive surgery in the treatment of kidney abnormalities and urinary tracts with a focus on the use of robotic techniques for the treatment of so-called "pyeloureteral stenosis", which is a congenital ureter malformation.
Our Unit is a pioneer in the treatment of sexual differentiation disorders at the paediatric age. We are also a renowned centre for paediatric renal transplants, and lead the way in Catalonia, especially in complex kidney transplants or transplants in combination with other organs.
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 main purpose of the Gynaecology Department is to offer constant, up-to-date expert service to all women in our area of influence. On the other hand, as are a level three hospital, we are leaders in high-level techniques and technologies.
Our Department is one of the finest in the country, especially for oncology, for cancer of the breast and lower female genitalia. These are complex pathologies whose treatment must take a multidisciplinary approach. Thanks to the support we receive from multiple specialists, we are proud to offer a high-quality service.
Since it was constituted in 1968, the Paediatric Endocrinology Unit has consolidated the care, teaching and research it offers to make it one of the most prestigious centres both nationally and internationally, as shown by the significant number of articles published in major journals.
This Unit was created in 1968, in the first years of the Hospital, by Dr Enric Vicens-Calvet, and since then we have offered paediatric endocrinology as a specialty, actively participating in the constitution of the Spanish Society of Paediatric Endocrinology and the International Association for Child and Adolescent Diabetes. (IESGD). It is made up of:
In addition to the subspecialties that are traditionally related to the field, the Gynaecology Department at Vall d'Hebron University Hospital has for several years now also incorporated gynaecological endoscopic surgery: laparoscopy and hysteroscopy. These account for almost 50% of the scheduled operations performed by the Department and most of them are carried out as outpatients, in the day hospital.
This Unit carries out diagnosis, treatment and monitoring of benign gynaecological pathologies that require surgical treatment using laparoscopic treatment.
The Major Outpatient Surgery Unit is located on the 3rd floor of the Maternity and Children's Hospital, next to the three operating theatres where the Endoscopy Unit and Post-Surgical Resuscitation Division carry out most of their operations.
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 Paediatric Digestive and Thoracic Surgery Unit is referenced in the diagnosis and treatment of congenital and acquired pathologies of the digestive and respiratory systems, as well as airway and thoracic wall pathologies. It centres its activities on ages ranging from one month to 16 years old.
The unit’s distinguishing feature is minimally invasive surgery, which prioritises the techniques of 3 and 5 millimetre, single-incision laparoscopic and thorascopic surgery, magnetic and robotic surgery.
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).
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