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Orthopädisches Spital - Wien Speising
Vienna, Austria
Orthopaedic Hospital Vienna-Speising is one of Europe's leading orthopaedic clinics, with an outstanding, world-wide reputation.
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Orthopaedic Hospital Vienna-Speising was founded in 1915 and has grown since then, the most recent building being inaugurated in 2008. The hospital now provides 280 beds and employs 60 consulting physicians, including 40 consulting orthopaedists and orthopaedic surgeons. It performs approx. 9,000 surgical procedures per year, caring for about 13,000 inpatients and 30,000 outpatients.
Intervertebral discs ensure the mobility of the spine and a single disc has to withstand a pressure of 23 bar when you lift a crate of beer. The average pressure in a car tyre is 2 bar. When degenerative changes occur, intervertebral disks may lose water, shrink, and finally tear, which is extremely painful.
In 1917 the 'Congregation of the Missionary Sisters Servants of the Holy Spirit' assumed the responsibilities of nursing management and in 1933 they assumed the management of the hospital.
Areas of expertise include general orthopaedics (foot, hand, knee, hip), sports orthopaedics, paediatric orthopaedics, spine surgery, orthopaedic pain management and non-operative orthopaedics.
A disc operation can relieve the pain, but it does not stop the process of degeneration. Physicians at Speising Orthopaedic Hospital are now trying to find biological therapies in order to obtain new, functional intervertebral disc tissue from pathologically altered intervertebral discs - and eventually from stem cells. Similar techniques are already used for damaged knee cartilage, but research into vertebral applications is still in the early stages.
Latest techniques and Christian values
The long-term objective is to grow defective human tissue in the test tube, and thus create healthy tissue that can serve the patient as a biologically regenerated intervertebral disc. In contrast to a metal implant, such a disc would not be regarded as a foreign body.
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Department Heads
Noted research centre
As a teaching hospital it offers state-of-the-art therapies and many department heads are professors and lecturers at the Medical University of Vienna.
The spinal department recently opened a cell laboratory where physicians carry out research into the possibilities of biological treatment of intervertebral disc problems.
| ■ | State-of-the-art spine techniques |
| ■ | Minimally invasive surgery |
| ■ | Modern club foot treatment according to the Ponseti method |
| ■ | A helpful and supportive atmosphere and all faiths are welcome |
Today, as part of the Vinzenz Hospital Group, Orthopaedic Hospital Vienna-Speising offers
Assoc. Prof. Franz Landsiedl. General Orthopaedics: arthoroscopy; knee, shoulder and elbow surgery; hip, knee and shoulder arthroplasty, axis displacement; rheumatology; sports orthopedics.
Prof. Karl Knahr. Special treatment of all orthopaedic diseases of the skeletal and motoric systems, focussing on artificial joint replacement (hip, knee, shoulder), arthroscopy (knee, shoulder) and surgery of the foot and ankle.
Assoc. Prof. Michael Ogon. Spine surgery inc. fusion surgery, intervertebral disc prosthesis, cervical spine, constriction of vertebral canal, disc prolapse, vertebral fracture, scoliosis, thermocoagulation and general orthopaedics
Prof. Franz Gill. One of the top paediatric orthopaedic clinics in Europe, focussing on the complete range of treatments of congenital and acquired diseases of the skeletal and locomotor systems in infants and adolescents.
Prof. Martin Friedrich. Orthopaedic Pain Management, including diagnosis of orthopaedic disease, disease-related pain and functional disorders, curing or alleviating them without surgery whenever possible.
Assoc. Prof. Gerhard Redl, Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care including mobile sonography , enabling superficial general anaesthesia and peripheral nerve block as standard procedure in orthopaedic surgery
Dr Ingrid Heiller. Physical Medicine and Orthopaedic Rehabilitation, with more than 40 employees carrying out highly qualified individual treatment of musculoskeletal disorders in more than 1,300 working hours per week.
Dr Wolfgang Freilinger. Day Care Centre, with three operting theatres of a kind unique in Austria, enabling many orthopaedic surgical procedures (e.g. hand, fingers, foot) to be offered as out-patient treatment.
Barbara Klemensich, MBA The Nursing Dept. follows the self-care model of Dorothea Elizabeth Orem, assessing each patient individually, encouraging self-care and tailoring assistance closely to personal needs.
Patient information facilities
Open MRI scanning available on-site
Open MRI is particularly suited to orthopaedic investigations, allowing greater comfort and the possibility to scan patients in a much wider range of positions - i.e. in the position where the pain is experienced, for greater clarity of diagnosis. Open MRI can sometimes save the need for investigative surgery.
Orthopädisches Spital Wien Speising offers beds with patient information terminals. These provide patients with telephone, radio, television and internet access. They also allow physicians to display radiographs or play back informational films about surgery at the hospital.
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