University Hospital Centre Zagreb, Croatia
Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery
Kišpatićeva 12, 10 000 Zagreb, Croatia
Head: Prof. Drago Prgomet, MD, PhD
E-mail: predstojnik_orl@kbc-zagreb.hr
Phone. +385 (0) 23 67 610; +385 (0) 23 67 561
Fax +385 (0)1 23 67 559
Our Department provides diagnosis and treatment for ear, nose and throat problems and conditions associated with the head and neck area. Founded on 26 September 1921, it is one of the oldest departments in southeastern Europe, and since then the basic teaching facility of the Zagreb University School of Medicine. The Department underwent many qualitative changes, continuously keeping step with the developments in otorhinolaryngology. As the leading otorhinolaryngology institution it covers the whole Croatian territory for complicated pathology, and it is also visited by numerous patients from all neighbouring countries. The Department currently employs nineteen specialists most of whom are subspecialists. Scientific research at the Department is accomplished through science projects supported by the Croatian Ministry of Science, Education and Sports. The scientific publishing activity of the Department must also be emphasized, with more than 2500 papers published. Since 2007, the largest part of the Department (inpatient unit, operating rooms, outpatient clinic, and emergency room) is located at the newly built building in Kišpatićeva Street (at the location popularly called "Rebro").
Outpatient Clinic
Tel.+ 385 (0)1 23 67 367
Annually, about 40 000 patients are examined at the Outpatient Clinic that consists of six specialized rooms for outpatients, the anaesthesiology outpatient clinic and the one-day surgical facility. The premises of the one-day surgery and the operating room are also located at the OutpatientClinic.
Inpatient Unit
This unit is a 65-bed facility with single and two bed rooms of a high accommodation standard. The average time hospitalized patients spend in hospital is 5.3 days. There are five divisionsand an Intensive Care Unit.
Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Head and Neck Surgery
Tel. +385 (0)1 23 67 556
Division of Otoneurology
Tel. +385 (0)1 23 67 780
Division of Rhinology
Tel. +385 (0)1 23 67 577
Division of Oncology
Tel. +385 (0)1 2367571
Division of Pediatric Otolaryngology
Tel. +385 (0)1 23 67 577
Intensive care unit
Tel. + 385 (0)1 23 67 564
Operating rooms
Phone. + 385 (0)1 23 67 030; 23 67 032
The Department disposes with 5 state-of-the-art operating rooms. The type of anaesthesia the patient will receive depends on the type of procedure (local intensified, inhalation, intravenous, “jet” anaesthesia). Postoperatively, patients are placed into recovery rooms or in the intensive care unit and are cared for by anaesthesiologists from the Department of Anesthesiology and ICU. We perform approximately 4 000 operations per year.
Among others, the following procedures are performed at the Department:• Head and neck diagnostics and surgery • Plastic and reconstructive procedures of the head and neck area • Free microvascular flaps • Plastic surgery (face lifting, otoplasty, rhinoplasty, blepharoplasty, eyelid scar correction) • Thyroid and parathyroid gland surgery • Endoscopic minimally invasive thyroid and parathyroid gland surgery • Pediatric otolaryngology procedures • Cochlear implantation • Surgical treatments of chronic ear infections and its complications • Surgical treatments of cranial base tumors • Minimally invasive endoscopic sinus surgery • Endonasal endoscopic orbital and optic nerve decompression • Endonasal endoscopic closures of the CSF leaks and surgery for tumors of the anterior, middle and posterior skull base • Endonasal endoscopic repair of choanal atresia and endonasal endoscopic dacryocystorhinostomy • Tonsillectomy and adenoidectomy (standard, laser and harmonic scalpel techniques) • Diagnostics of hearing disorders • ENG, computer-videonistagmography and craniocorporography • Hearing rehabilitation • Phonosurgery • Speech and phonetic education and rehabilitation.
The Department uses modern technology and equipment in diagnostics and surgery, such as laser, harmonic scalpel, intraoperative neuromonitoring, ENT navigation systems, JET anaesthesia, computer-videonistagmography and craniocorporography, management system for operating rooms etc.
Division of Audiology
Phone. +385 (0)1 23 68 838
Division of Phoniatrics
Phone. +385 (0)1 23 68 836
These Divisions remained at the the previous location of the whole Department (Šalata), but will be relocated to "Rebro" soon.
Last updated: oct 21, 2009.
