I. Clinic for Children and Juveniles (with Swabian Child Cancer Center)

1. Medical service portfolio

Diagnostics and therapy of all diseases in the neonatal age, infancy and adolescence

2. Specific main focuses of medical care

• Tumor and blood diseases of children and adolescents (hematology and oncology – Swabian Children’s Cancer Center)
• Metabolic and hormone diseases, growth disturbances (diabetology and endocrinology)
• Stomach and intestine diseases (gastroenterology)
• Kidney diseases (nephrology)
• Diseases of the nervous system of children and adolescents (neuropediatry)
• Diagnostics and therapy of congenital malformations, metabolic disorders and developmental disorders
• Infectious disease of children and adolescents
• Diseases of the immune system and rheumatology
• Children’s Radiologic Department of the Clinical Center’s Diagnostic Radiology with pediatric sonography, CT and clinic-own magnetic resonance tomograph
• Performance of radiologic and other diagnostics under sedation or anesthesia, partly in cooperation with the Clinical Center’s anesthesiology
• Nuclear medical diagnostics (scintigraphy, SPECT, PET) in cooperation with the Clinic for Nuclear Medicine
• Emergency outpatient services 24 hours around-the-clock on duty
• Psychological attendance to exceptionally stressed patients
• Provision of aftercare attendance in cooperation with the aftercare organization “Bunter Kreis”

3. Further services offered

• Private outpatients’ treatment by the chief physician
• Special consultation hours (authorized outpatients’ department of KVB) for neuropediatry, endocrinology and diabetes, hematology and oncology, gastroenterology, nephrology, mucoviscidosis
• Attendance to children with spina bifida and hydrocephalus in cooperation with the Children’s Surgical Clinic and the Neurosurgical Clinic
• Accommodation and pediatric attendance and care in the Children’s Clinic for patients of other specialty departments of the Clinical Center (eye clinic, ENT clinic, neurosurgery, dermatology)
• Advisory services for specific patient groups: diabetics training, adiposity training (partly in cooperation with the aftercare organization “Bunter Kreis”)
• Generous visiting hours
• Physician on duty 24 hours in the house, medical specialist background service 24 hours immediately available
• Daily interdisciplinary case conferences together with the II. Clinic, children’s surgery and children’s radiology
• Close cooperation with all other specialty departments of the Clinical Center
• Weekly advanced training, participation in the quality circles, lectures at and attendance of conventions
• Participation in national and international studies
• Periodical advanced training events for general practitioners and medical specialists
• Full authorization to postgraduate professional education together with the II. Clinic for Children and
• Juveniles