The program includes:
- Initial presentation in the clinic
- clinical history taking
- physical examination
- cardiological examination
- laboratory tests:
- complete blood count
- general urine analysis
- biochemical analysis of blood
- TSH-basal, fT3, fT4
- indicators of inflammation
- indicators blood coagulation
- Cardiological examination
- Measurement of arterial blood pressure, EKG
- Cardiac monitoring (24h)
- ECHO
- Transesophageal echocardiography (TEE)
- nursing services
- full hospital accommodation
- explanation of individual treatment plan
Required documents
- Medical records
- Echocardiography (if available)
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About the department
The Department of Pediatric Pulmonology, Allergology, Neonatology, Intensive Care and Pediatric Cardiology at the University Hospital Oldenburg offers the full range of services in these medical fields. The department has state-of-the-art equipment, innovative treatment methods and highly qualified medical team, which makes every effort to provide top-class medical care for newborns, young children and adolescents.
The Chief Physician of the department is Prof. Dr. med. Jürgen Seidenberg. According to the Focus magazine, the expert ranks among the top German doctors specializing in the treatment of allergic diseases, bronchial asthma and neurodermatitis!
The department's allergists provide the accurate diagnostics and effective treatment of all types of allergic diseases. The most common are hay fever (allergic rhinoconjunctivitis), atopic dermatitis, allergic bronchial asthma, severe allergic reactions (up to anaphylactic shock), acute and chronic urticaria. Allergic diseases can occur in early childhood, but more often they occur in older children and adolescents.
The range of diagnostic and therapeutic services of the department in allergology includes:
- Allergologic tests
- Priсk tests
- Patch tests
- Nasal provocation tests
- IgE blood test
- Provocative food tests
- Reintroduction of certain foods into the diet for suspected food allergy or after an elimination diet
- Hyposensitization
- Treatment of allergic reactions of any severity
- Training of patients and their relatives to provide medical care in case of anaphylactic shock
- Treatment of neurodermatitis of any severity
- Other diagnostic and treatment methods
Among the most important department's focuses is also pediatric cardiology. In this field, it offers the diagnostics and treatment of a wide range of heart diseases in infants, young children, adolescents, as well as the detection and treatment of heart pathologies at the stage of intrauterine development. The department's pediatric cardiologists mostly have to deal with congenital and acquired heart defects, heart arrhythmias, high blood pressure, pulmonary hypertension and infectious heart diseases.
In most cases, congenital heart defects are treated using catheter techniques. Bradycardia or cardiac arrhythmias are treated using pacemaker implantation.
The department offers the following examinations for the diagnostics of heart diseases:
- ECG (including transesophageal), long-term ECG, stress ECG (treadmill and bicycle ergometer exercise), implantation of event recorder
- Spiroergometry
- Color Doppler echocardiography
- Cardiac catheterization (in diagnostic and therapeutic purposes)
- Magnetic resonance imaging (imaging, functional examination of the heart and large vessels)
In addition, the department specializes in neonatology and intensive care. The experts in neonatology provide comprehensive medical care for premature babies and newborns. The department has the special Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, which is in close proximity to the Department of Gynecology. In addition, the department has an interdisciplinary Intensive Care Unit for Children and Adolescents. It offers such methods of modern intensive care as differentiated respiratory therapy, therapy for the restoration of normal blood circulation, ultramodern monitoring systems, etc. The Intensive Care Unit provides medical care not only for children after surgical interventions, but also for patients after accidents, serious infections, metabolic diseases, hematological and oncological diseases (in close cooperation with doctors of the related disciplines).
The special focus of clinical practice is pediatric pulmonology, which deals with the diagnostics and treatment of all acute and chronic diseases of the respiratory tract and lungs in children.
The department offers the wide range of diagnostic services, which includes spirometry, body plethysmography, bronchoscopy, pulmonary function tests in infants, measurement of diffusing capacity of the lungs, provocative stress tests (on a treadmill), methacholine challenge test, sweat test to exclude cystic fibrosis and many other examinations.
The range of medical services of the department in pediatric pulmonology includes the diagnostics and treatment of the following diseases:
- Bronchial asthma
- Spastic and obstructive bronchitis
- Chronic cough
- Pronounced respiratory murmurs in infants
- Pneumonia (lung inflammation)
- Pleurisy
- Foreign bodies in the airway
- Cystic fibrosis
- Bronchopulmonary dysplasia (in premature infants)
- Congenital malformations of the lungs
- Interstitial lung diseases (pulmonary diseases)
- Pulmonary hypertension (in collaboration with pediatric cardiologists)
- Tuberculosis
- Sleep-related breathing disorders (for example, sleep apnea syndrome)
- Other pulmonary diseases in children
Photo of the doctor: (c) Klinikum Oldenburg AöR
About hospital
According to the Focus magazine, the University Hospital Oldenburg ranks among the best medical facilities in Germany!
The hospital offers a wide range of medical services that meet the highest medical standards. The hospital has 832 beds. The medical facility annually serves 37,000 patients on an inpatient and partially inpatient basis, as well as 95,000 outpatients.
All the doctors working in the hospital are highly qualified specialists with many years of experience and excellent achievements in the treatment of a wide range of diseases. The staff of the hospital also cares about the emotional state of patients, and therefore creates a friendly atmosphere and supports patients in every way at all stages of their diagnostics and treatment.
In addition, the hospital is located on the territory with a picturesque landscape, which has a positive effect on the recovery of patients.
Photo: (c) depositphotos
Accommodation in hospital
Patients rooms
The patients of the University Hospital Oldenburg live in comfortable single, double and triple patient rooms. Each room is equipped with an ensuite bathroom with toilet and shower. In addition, the patient rooms have a TV, a telephone and the Internet access. The patient rooms of the pediatric departments are designed in an appropriate interior so that the young patients feel at home. It is offered to place the child in one room with one of the parents. It should be noted that the hospital has an excellent infrastructure: pharmacy, hairdressing saloon, ATM, library with audiobooks, DVD movies and some board games.
Meals and Menus
The hospital offers a delicious varied three meals a day. It takes into account all the preferences and wishes of the patients, and therefore the menu features many vegetarian dishes. Also, the hospital houses a cafe where one can enjoy a cup of coffee or hot tea with a dessert.