The community gives Hospital King Juan Carlos in a Da Vinci robot, designed by NASA engineers.
the second hospital of Móstoles will open its doors from March 22.
– with the addition of this team will be two Madrid public hospitals that have a Da Vinci
-This technology allows the surgeon to handle with great precision arms articulated in a console
-the hospital will feature a PET-TAC and a gamma camera SPECT-CT in Nuclear Medicine Service
-the template is of 1,053 employees among which there are 215 doctors, 648 nurses and other health professionals
Madrid, March 2012.- La Comunidad de Madrid has endowed the Hospital King Juan Carlos in MóstolesIt will open its doors on 22 March, a latest generation intelligent operating room called Da Vinci. With the incorporation of this team will be two public hospitals that have these robotic surgery devices.
This was stated on Monday the Health Minister of the community of Madrid, Javier Fenández – Lasquetty, in press conference with the media, having visited surgical and diagnostic imaging, services as well as the area of hospitalization and emergencies.
The Da Vinci robot is a device designed by NASA engineers, who originally developed to perform operations on oil rigs, situations of war or for space stations, and finally had a medical application.
Robotic surgery has the advantage to be practiced a minimal incision, that the vision that has the operating surgeon is three-dimensional, whereas in laparoscopic surgery, is two-dimensional.
On the other hand, the surgeon through the console has the possibility for greater precision and delicate movements through laparoscopic surgery, since the articulated arms of the robot that lie inside the patient have better axes of movement.
PET-TAC, latest technology
On the other hand, the Health Minister also stressed that King Juan Carlos hospital will feature latest technology for the diagnosis of cancer, that will feature a PET-TAC. This diagnostic tool allows to detect all kinds of tumors, to children and unidentified primary tumors because it combines the emission of Positron tomography (PET) with the Computerizada Axial Tomography (TAC).
This PET-TAC joins the other seven that are already working in other public hospitals in the region – La Paz, the clinical, Puerta de Hierro – Majadahonda, Doce de Octubre, Getafe, Marañón and Fuenlabrada-. The community of Madrid offers the largest ratio of Europe of public equipment of this type per million inhabitants.
In addition, this technology can diagnose dementia, locate accurately the area where is going to surgically intervene or make a radiation therapy treatment as well as assess the State of the brain after trauma. These teams will be installed in the service of Nuclear Medicine of the new hospital of Móstoles, along with a gamma camera SPECT-CT.
Advanced sanitation
The radiodiagnostic service will feature two TAC (TomografÃa Axial Computerizada) and two MRI (magnetic resonance imaging). In addition, the hospital will have, in total, 14 scanners in cardiology, Gineobstetricia and other areas. In addition, radiation oncology service will feature a linear accelerator and a microselectron.
About 400 patients have requested appointment in four days
The Madrid health service began to give quotes, on Monday 5th, patients from the area of influence of Hospital King Juan Carlos, from the primary care health centers. There have been 338 quotations for the different requested specialties including TraumatologÃa y Ortopedia 174 patients cited, followed by 98 Ophthalmology and dermatology with 84. Citizens have been able to exercise free choice at the time of his appointment.
Hospital King Juan Carlos will gradually open its doors in three weeks. On March 22 will begin to run queries and radiology and the following day the extractions. Friday 30 major outpatient surgery and ICU; on April 2 the day hospital, Monday 9 scheduled hospitalization and surgery with income and finally on April 12 emergencies and hospitalization and obstrético block.
The hospital will have 1,053 employees among which there are 215 doctors, 648 nurses and other health professionals.
Hospital King Juan Carlos is one of the three new hospitals in Madrid launches this legislature, joining Torrejón, already in operation and to the Collado Villalba, under construction.
The regional government, under the leadership of Esperanza Aguirre, will launch a total of twelve hospitals scattered throughout the region.
The health centre will have 260 individual rooms, 47 queries, 10 posts of medical day hospital and 12 posts of dialysis. In the surgical area, you will have 10 operating theatres. By the same token, will have 32 cabinets of exploration, 78 jobs urgent care, 21 rooms of Radiology, 10 jobs neonatology and 18 posts of UCI.
The new hospital King Juan Carlos will give health coverage to about 180,000 inhabitants of 18 municipalities (Móstoles, Navalcarnero, scaffold of glass, San MartÃn de Valdeiglesias, Villa del Prado, Navas del Rey, Villaviciosa de Odón, Cenicientos, Rozas of Port Royal, dam Pelayos, village of Fresno, Sevilla la Nueva, Villamanta, Villamantilla, Villanueva de Perales)(, ChapinerÃa, Colmenar de Arroyo and the Alamo), although with the implementation in the Madrid health of free choice, any citizen may if you wish, be cared for in this Center.
Two hospitals in Móstoles
With the opening of this health centre, Móstoles will be the first city in the community, after Madrid, count on two public hospitals, which are also associated with the Universidad Rey Juan Carlos.
The new hospital has an investment of more than 232 million euros, and is located between the plaza de toros and the Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, with easy access by motorway A-5, and will have the latest technologies, both health information and telecommunications. The Centre has a surface area of almost 95,000 square meters. Also, its portfolio of services includes medical, surgical, maternal child and Central, that they be handled 90% of most common diseases.
Finally note that a total of 11,320 Madrid went to the open days of the new Hospital King Juan Carlos in Móstoles held since last Wednesday, February 22 until February 26. Sunday 26 was the day that the Centre received more visits with 2,808 people interested in the grounds of the Hospital. In the days were carried out more than 6,000 tests to 1,900 people who took advantage of the visit to the hospital site to be taking strain, measurement of blood glucose, weight, height or body mass index. 80% Of these people was more than 60 years.
