El Torrejón Hospital expands its portfolio with the new unit of Medicine of the dream.
high-resolution consultations to deal with the locals in the Henares corridor. sleep disorders
-its objective is to provide effective and quick solutions of patients with sleep disorders
-The new drive involves ten professionals in neurology, pneumology, ENT, Maxillofacial and Pediatrics
Madrid, January 2012- the Hospital of Torrejón, belonging to the public network of hospitals in the community of Madrid, expands its portfolio of services with the launch in place of the sleep medicine unitwhich has as objective the diagnosis and treatment of sleep disorders. The new unit brings together ten specialists services in neurology, neurophysiology, pneumology, otolaryngology, maxillofacial surgery and Pediatrics as well as a specialized nursing team and is coordinated by Dr. Miguel Angel Saiz Sepúlveda, neurophysiologist at the Hospital.
Part of the compromise that we have with the citizens of the Henares corridor to bring them the care they need. The new unit will work elbow with elbow with primary health care centres to provide quick and effective solutions to their problems for patients ”, explains Ignacio Martinez Jover, managing director of the Hospital de Torrejón.
Sleep disorders can affect anyone, regardless of their sex or age, although they appear most frequently in two groups: respiratory disorders are more common in males aged more than 45 years and insomnia in women over age 50.
The new unit of Medicine of the dream, the Torrejon Hospital launches in its fourth month of activity, provides circuits diagnostic and therapeutic for patients suspected of suffering from some sort of sleep disorder can obtain a solution custom in the fastest possible way.
The therapeutic range is very wide and various alternatives are decided according to the characteristics of each patient. In some cases performance will be related to the modification of some of their habits, within the programme of education for health.
In other cases, patients will require ventilatory therapy or pharmacological therapies to mitigate their pathology and we can even consider a surgical for some groups of patients approach, as it is the case of children. This surgical approach has shown excellent results in recent years and is perfectly safe.
Communication with primary
The hospital maintains direct communication channels with primary care, allowing those patients whose diagnoses tables do suspect a sleep disorder are arising rapidly to the hospital, where we make the diagnosis, and mobilize the personalised treatment for each patient. The vast majority of cases are solved with ventilatory therapy, which allow patients to recover their health and their quality of life in an almost immediate way, noticeable improvement from the first day of treatment.
The new provision of the Torrejon Hospital has a technology budget of first level to obtain the most accurate and rapid diagnosis: Polisomnógrafo, polygraph, PulsioxÃmetro, ActÃgrafo. The spirit of the unit fits perfectly with the philosophy of high resolution that the hospital has become his hallmark for the attention of the citizens of the Henares corridor. Diagnostic technology that has been incorporated in the Hospital of Torrejon allows test takes place in the home of the patient, which prevents this spend a night in the hospital. These teams are designed so that the patient can manipulate them with simple instructions that we have provided at the hospital. I.e. trying to carrying out the tests to have the minimum possible impact on the daily life of people.
A hospital of the 21st century
Activity in the Centre began on September 22 and the Corredor del Henares citizens already enjoyed a new hospital near their homes that saves them unnecessary and uncomfortable travel. The new Center has 250 beds in single rooms and a wide portfolio of services capable of assuming 95 percent of the health care needs of patients of the Henares corridor. The Center’s services include its 20 posts of hospitalization day, 10 operating theaters, 16 posts of dialysis, 6 dislodgement, 83 posts of ER, 89 queries and cabinets, 5 digital systems of Radiology, 10 scanners, 2 CT multislice and magnetic resonance imaging of last generation.
