 University Hospital Centre Zagreb, Croatia
The University Hospital Centre Zagreb (KBC Zagreb) is the biggest and most important hospital in Croatia as well as a unique institution regarding many medical procedures, diagnostic methods and therapeutic procedures including highly differentiated procedures of top quality.
KBC Zagreb has more than 4,700 employees in total, 3,500 of which are medical staff committed to providing medical and nursing services to their patients. The hospital employs 962 physicians and other medical staff with a university degree and 2,560 nurses and medical technicians. There are also 345 persons employed as administrative staff as well as 745 employees in technical assistance.
The main site of our hospital centre (“Rebro”) was built in 1942. Since then we have been pursuing developments in all areas of medicine, based upon our own as well as international high standards, which have been accepted in our everyday routine. Many of our staff members have had significant influence in the overall progress of medicine, and some procedures have been performed at KBC Zagreb for the first time not only in Croatia but in this part of Europe as well.
Here are some examples: the first cardiac catheterization in children (1950), CT (1976), the first bone marrow transplantation (1983), the first in vitro fertilization (1983), heart transplantation (1988), liver transplantation from deceased and live donors (1990 and 2001 respectively), endoscopic ultrasound and fine needle aspiration biopsy (2001), apheresis of serum lipoproteins (2002).
Recently, several new procedures have been introduced: MSCT, MR spectroscopy, PET-scan, enteroscopy, endoscopy ultrasound with lymph nodes elastography, interventional neuroradiology, gamma knife radiosurgery, radiofrequency ablation of tumorous tissues, peritonectomy and hyperthermic chemotherapy, laparascopic surgery of kidneys and adrenal glands etc.
First diagnostic and treatment procedures in Croatia in new branches of medicine have been established at KBC Zagreb as follows: clinical pharmacology in 1973, electrophysiology in 1977, cognitive neurology in 2006 and metabolic diseases in 2006.
We are very proud to have today more than 50 referral centres of excellence acknowledged by the Croatian Ministry of Health and Social Welfare. These centres are aiming at continuous monitoring and improving specific areas of the medical profession and science in Croatia.
KBC Zagreb actively cooperates with the world’s leading hospital institutions, such as: Harvard University (USA), University Hospital Eppendorf, Hamburg (Germany), University Hospital Centre Munich - locations Großhadern and Innenstadt (Germany), etc. Regionally KBC Zagreb cooperates with the Teaching Hospital Mostar (Bosnia & Herzegovina), University Hospital Centre Kosova (Kosovo), etc.
KBC Zagreb operates at 5 locations. Its departments are situated as follows:
Location Kišpatićeva (Rebro):
Department of Internal Medicine
Department of Cardiovascular Diseases
Department of Pediatrics
Department of Neurology
Department of Urology
Department of Neurosurgery
Department of Oncology and Radiotherapy
Department of Emergency Medicine
Department of Dialysis
Department of Anesthesiology and ICU
Department of Pathophysiology and Experimental Medicine
Department of Nuclear Medicine and Radiation Protection
Department of Rheumathology and Rehabilitation
Department of Radiology
Department of Clinical and Molecular Microbiology
Department of Clinical Transfusiology
Pharmacy
Location Šalata:
Location Petrova:
Department of Gynaecology and Obstetrics
Location Božidarevićeva:
Department of Rehabilitation and Orthopaedic Devices
Location Gundulićeva:
Department of Dental Medicine
Last updated: nov 26, 2009.
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