Research
Teaching
Innovation

Hospital Dos de Maig

Internal Medicine

Internal Medicine

The Internal Medicine Service offers specialized medical care to adult patients. Its mission is to take care of people in an individualized, integrative way and with excellent scientific quality, adapting to the needs of the population in its environment, to restore their health. These needs have changed in recent years due to the aging of the general population and the chronicity of multiple diseases, which have shaped chronic and frail patients.

The differentiating fact of this medical specialty is its ability to integrate the patient, its global vision of the person, the family, diseases and the environment. In recent years it has become the pillar of care for hospitalized people and a fundamental support for surgical specialties.

At the same time, the specification and complexity of scientific knowledge have led to the development of areas of expertise to be able to respond to the needs and expectations of many patients regarding their health.

Teaching is the other basic pillar of the specialty to offer the learning of basic knowledge and skills to professionals in medical specialties. And yet it adheres to research by participating in registries and studies in collaboration with other centers.

 

  • Update date: 16/03/2021

Head of Service

  • Lourdes Ferrer Ruscalleda

    internal Medicine

    head of specialized care service

Members

  • Maria Del Mar Lluch Targarona

    internal Medicine

    head of specialized care service

In this section appear the professionals of the Integral Health Consortium who have authorized the display of their personal data.

  • Update date: 16/03/2021

Conventional hospitalization

It provides continuous care to inpatients, interconsults supporting patients from the surgical services and maintains a 24-hour on-call device (DAMI) for ongoing inpatient care and support to the center's CUAP.

Assistance to external inquiries
  • Cardiovascular risk
  • Anemias
  • Infections
  • HIV infection
  • UMA Multidisciplinary Autoimmune Diseases Unit
  • See Uveitis
Day hospital assistance
  • Procedures and treatments without admission
  • Comprehensive assessment of the fragile and complex patient
  • Presurgical blood saving program
  • Rapid diagnostic unit
  • Thromboembolic disease
  • Heart failure unit
  • Infections
  • Sexually transmitted diseases
  • Screening for initiation of biological treatments
  • Consult COVID care
  • Comprehensive Complexity Support Team
Other activities
  • Responsible for the management of intrahospital infection with the Hospital Infection Control team (ECIH) and the Antibiotic Use Optimization Program (PROA), together with other services.
  • Responsible for several clinical committees of the hospital: Infections Committee and Mortality Committee. He participates in many others: Patient Safety Committee, Life Support Committee, Hemotherapy Committee, Pharmacotherapeutic Committee, Ulcers and Chronic Wounds Committee.

  • Update date: 16/03/2021

The service participates in multi-centre registers of patients affected by specific diseases, such as the RIETE national register on thromboembolic diseases. Participates in several multicenter studies.

  • Update date: 16/03/2021

The service participates in the training of postgraduate students and family medicine residents to learn basic knowledge and skills.

  • Update date: 16/03/2021

Accessibility by WAH