The Gastroenterology Department of Hospital Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic
 |
|
Lenka Klimova, |
The gastroenterology department was established in 1998 and has two sections. The inpatient ward section is a large department with 8 beds for intensive care, 10 beds for intermediate care and 14 beds for standard care.
The outpatient section has specific endoscopy rooms and other specialized outpatient departments. Currently we have 45 employees.
The chief doctor and head physician of our department is Mrs. ShonovÃ, MD. Two of my closest colleagues are departmental Sisters, Mrs. JÃrovà and Mrs. TichÃ. The three of us manage our department to the best of our abilities. Our head physician is an extraordinary person. She has founded our department and was successful in implementing a lot of excellent ideas. She was instrumental in getting the department equipped with state-of-the-art computer technology and instrumentation. She also devised our labour program. She is an excellent physician and trains young physicians, both in the Czech Republic and other European countries, where she is well known. A team of physicians thus follows her footsteps in gastroenterology, endoscopy and internal medicine.
 |
|
Admit and recovery area fully equipped |
 |
|
Procedure room with |
We are very fortunate to work with the best technology and the procedures we practice include gastroscopies, colonoscopies, ERCP’s (endoscopic retrograde cholangio-pancreatography), sonography, endosonography, pH-metry, manometry, and other procedures. It takes one day to order and schedule examinations, but emergency operations are carried out immediately. We also closely monitor and treat patients in specially equipped emergency rooms. Our gastroenterology department is modern and beautiful. The nurses and staff find working in this field to be very interesting.
We treat 17,000 patients every year in our department, many of which have colorectal, immunological and inflammatory diseases. Our work and care of patients is on a very high level. We are interested in the quality of life for our patients and try to help them to improve their quality of life not only with treatment, but also with psychological care, personal advice and a kind, compassionate approach. Our department actively monitors preventive care for various digestive tract illnesses, colorectal carcinoma, intestinal inflammations, IBD, Crohn’s disease and Ulcerative Colitis. We also engage in research studies and statistics of monitored treatment, and participate in the statistical processing of these data and information. We hope that our work will result in determining the possible causes and cures for these illnesses.
In our department, we have the first Czech IBD register, whose author is Mrs. ShonovÃ, our chief physician. For many years, this project has been supplied with important information and processed by a computer firm into a wealth of important statistical data that, I hope, will contribute someday to the detection and localisation of causes and origin of inflammatory bowel disease.
Cook eNews
Sign up here to receive e-mail from Cook on clinical updates, new product details and educational opportunities.
Sign Up »