The Department of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine has advanced experience for the treatment of diseases in children and adolescents. The department has more than 70 beds for its inpatients and treats over 3,000 inpatients and 17,000 outpatients annually.

When a child has to go to the hospital, it is always a great psychological burden for the parents and the child itself. For this reason, the Department of Paediatrics and Adolescent Medicine has set up several parent-child rooms, which can accommodate an accompanying person. The Head of the Department is Prof. Dr. Thorsten Rosenbaum. 

The department offers a broad medical spectrum from all areas of pediatrics and adolescent medicine. The team consists of physicians, nurses, psychologists, physiotherapists as well as one social worker, educator, and nutritionist.

Our team of specially trained physiotherapists treats the children according to different physiotherapy methods. For example, individual treatments according to Vojta or Bobath are used, as well as special physiotherapeutic methods for respiratory diseases and other impairments.

The department offers special treatment methods, as well as services such as a parent-child room, room for teenagers, psychological support, physiotherapy, interdisciplinary treatment and asthma training for parents and children. 

The range of medical services of the department includes:

Neonatology:

• Extremely premature infants weighing up to 1,000 g
• Premature and newborn babies with a spectrum of diseases that are typical of the age
• Premature and newborn babies with neurosurgical clinical pictures
• Premature and newborn babies with congenital vascular malformations
• Premature and newborn babies with severe congenital heart defects

Pediatric intensive care medicine:

• Treatment of all severe diseases in childhood
• Treatment of children with severe burns
• Interregional treatment of patients after neurointerventional surgery

Neuropediatrics:

• Diagnosis and treatment of epilepsy in childhood and adolescence
• Treatment changes in epilepsy that are difficult to treat
• Diagnosis and treatment of inflammatory and degenerative diseases of the nervous system
• Diagnosis and treatment of metabolic disorders of the CNS
• Diagnosis of peripheral nerve paralysis
• Monitoring of premature babies
• Diagnosis and treatment of cerebral palsy, determination of indications for oral drug treatment or botulinum toxin injections
• Headaches

Pediatric diabetology:

• Primary diagnosis of diabetes 
• Multimodal comprehensive treatment during the initial manifestation
• Intensified and conventional insulin therapy
• Insulin pump therapy
• Psychological support
• Psychosocial support
• Counseling on nutrition
• Diagnosis and treatment of different forms of diabetes
• Diagnosis and treatment of concomitant diseases and complications in diabetes

Pediatric pulmonology/allergology

Pediatric gastroenterology:

• 24-hour pH measurement
• Hydrogen breath test (fructose/lactose intolerance)
• All radiological methods, e.g. gastrointestinal tract
• Gastroesophagoscopy, colonoscopy, and placement of the percutaneous endoscopic
• gastrostomy
• Special ultrasound techniques
• Psychological counseling
• Cardiac diagnosis
• ECG
• Echocardiography
• Continuous ECG
• Long-term blood pressure measurement in cooperation with the Department of Internal
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