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Fundació Puigvert carries out its own clinical research projects or those conducted by external private or public promoters or scientific societies.

The Research Support Department conducts clinical trials with drugs, clinical research with medical devices, studies with biological samples, epidemiological studies and observational studies.

Research Coordinator and President of the CEIm at Fundació Puigvert: Dr Sílvia Mateu

The department overseeing the medical-administrative services and the patient management service is in charge of the administrative tasks that allow the programming of healthcare procedures for public patients.

Department Director: Dr Mª Teresa Vernet March

Fundació Puigvert’s anaesthesia, resuscitation and pain medicine service specialises in caring for patients in the hospital’s fields of specialisation.

Its mission is to accompany, oversee and protect our patients at all times in the event of surgery or diagnostic tests that require anaesthesia. From the preoperative stage to the surgery or the diagnostic test and in the intermediate care unit. All of this is done in collaboration with a nursing team who are highly qualified in anaesthesiology and resuscitation.

During the initial visit, in addition to the medical study, all relevant information is collected regarding the patient’s general state of health, and any questions about the procedure are answered.

The main healthcare areas that this service covers are:

• Assessment of risks of anaesthesia and surgery
• Surgical anaesthesia
• Postoperative resuscitation (postoperative intensive care unit)
• Pain clinic

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The main purpose of the medical documentation service is to ensure that clinical histories are unique, integral, secure and of good quality so that they may be useful tools for patient care.

The service also provides support for research, teaching, quality assessment, clinical management and legal matters.

The service comprises three units:

• The Archives Unit oversees the quality of data of clinical histories, digitalises documents and incorporates them into electronic clinical histories, as well as providing support for healthcare staff, teaching and research.
• The Reports Secretariat oversees patients’ right to access their clinical histories, providing them with copies of clinical documents and managing medical reports on request.
• The Documentation Unit manages clinical information for the institution’s growing demand for data, as well as for national and international administrations and bodies.

Our nursing team account for around half of our workforce. Thanks to their specialisation and experience in caring for patients, they can guarantee comprehensive care that enhances patients’ security, quality and experience.

We understand patient care as a customised action, where the person in all their dimensions – disorder, needs, sensitivity, emotions, experiences, specific features, habits, etc. – is taken into account.

Our specialised nursing team stands out for its high level of expertise and dedication to urological, nephrological, andrological and reproductive care. With twelve specialists in advanced nursing practice, we have the highest ratio per number of hospital beds and per number of advanced nursing practitioners among hospitals in Barcelona:

• Functional and Female Urology
• Urology and Stomatherapy
• Andrology
• Chronic Kidney Disease
• Hypertension and Prevention of Kidney Damage
• Peritoneal Dialysis
• Endoscopy
• Assisted Reproduction
• Case Management and Preparation of Admissions and Discharges

Find out more here about our specialised nursing team.

The Hospital Pharmacy Service provides support for medical and surgical healthcare. The functions of this service include the following:

• Pharmaceutical care of kidney transplant patients on discharge
• Specialisation in preparation of sterile medicines for intravesical administration

It also takes actions that ensure the effectiveness of certain medicines and minimise their toxicity in relation to potential kidney damage.

It is involved in clinical trials of urology, nephrology and andrology providing comprehensive management of medications under research.

Lastly, it provides outpatient pharmaceutical care and dispatches hospital medication to patients who reside outside of Barcelona.

Fundació Puigvert has an in-house laboratory service that provides support for comprehensive, humane and effective healthcare in urology, nephrology and andrology. It also promotes development, scientific knowledge and teaching.

The laboratory service works in nine fields of specialisation:

• Anatomical pathology
• Biochemistry
• Molecular genetics
• Haematology and haemostasis
• Immunology
• Urinary lithiasis
• Microbiology
• Clinical semenology
• Semenology and embryology

It provides a wide range of services, including the detection, gauging and/or analysis of over 450 biological magnitudes and analytical profiles in consensus with specialists of Fundació Puigvert’s healthcare areas.

The laboratory’s global activity amounts to 100,000 requests and 800,000 analyses a year.

Find out more here about the different laboratories.

The Clinical Psychology Service is linked to the Urology, Nephrology, Andrology and Reproductive Medicine departments and provides assistance, support and accompaniment to our patients.

The service is provided by a team of eight people, four of which are resident interns.

Procedures are carried out individually, in pairs or groups. Children, adolescents and adults are treated. Some of these procedures are pooled with other professionals, as the case may be.

Inpatient visits depend on specific demands and make up a significant volume of the overall activity.

With a team comprised of 40 professionals, including 10 specialists in radiology, eight in nursing and 15 in diagnostic imaging, the Radiodiagnosis Service is equipped to provide over 150 types of diagnostic tests and procedures involving interventional radiology.

Hence, the service provides support for the hospital’s different specialities, generating some 20,000 image diagnoses a year. We are equipped to perform lithotripsies, CT scans, Doppler ultrasonographies and radiographies, among other procedures.

Our Urgent Care Service receives patients 24 hours a day every day of the year to care for urgent health problems that fall within our fields of specialisation. Fundació Puigvert has four installations for this service and receives around 20,000 urgent-care patients per year.

At present, the service is provided by general urgent care professionals, who specialise in urological, andrological or nephrological disorders, although patients’ overall conditions are considered, with the help of urology and nephrology resident interns and those of other cross-cutting medical services:

• Radiodiagnosis
• Laboratory
• Hospital Pharmacy
• All the staff of Fundació Puigvert

As the urgent care service is part of a single-speciality centre, the disorders it treats are highly specific. A team of medical and nursing professionals, as well as healthcare and administrative auxiliary staff, comprise a focused unit dedicated to providing the best possible care.

An urgent care service will function properly only when all staff work with the same criteria.