Diseases and procedures

• Infectious diseases:

  The most common are respiratory such as bacterial or viral pneumonia (COVID, flu...), urinary tract (pyelonephritis prostatis), digestive tract infections, skin infections, central nervous system infections (meningitis), infections without foci in immunocompromised patients undergoing chemotherapy ... These processes usually respond well to antibiotic treatment, but sometimes require intensive care support, complex diagnostic techniques.

• Chronic diseases:

  Our aging population and lifestyles have significantly increased medical risk factors such as diabetes, high blood pressure, obesity. All together, it produces an affectation of the organs (heart, kidney, lung) that evolves chronically, causing organ failure (cardiac and cardiac arrhythmias, renal, anemia, respiratory....). The result is chronic and complex patients who often present simultaneously several of these insufficiencies. Due to his holistic training, the internist is ideal for treating these patients both in the initial stages and in more advanced stages.

• Study of complex processes

  At the present time, technologies allow clinical studies of patients, with potentially serious clinical conditions, without requiring admission to hospital in a large part of the cases, doing the study in quick care consultations. Sometimes, patients need invasive techniques or present social functional clinical situations, which make it necessary to admit the patient to study their process. In this group we would have, among other things, studies of anemia, constitutional syndromes, confessional...

• Systemic, inflammatory and thrombotic diseases

  It is a group of less frequent diseases, but very specific to internal medicine, such as the study, diagnosis, treatment and follow-up of systemic diseases and treatment of thromboembolic diseases. These pathologies work in teams with other medical specialties in the hospital and even in other centers.

• Medical complications of the oncological-hematological patient

  In our centre, internal medicine supports the oncology and hematology services, taking care of oncology or hematology patients who are admitted for medical complications associated with the evolution or treatment of the oncological disease.

• Interconsultation of other services

  The versatility of internists allows us to support patients admitted to other services with infectious complications or exacerbations of chronic diseases that are not specific to the specialty where the patient is admitted.