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Medical Director: PD Dr. med. Stefan Kluge
Vice Medical Director: Dr. med. Geraldine de Heer
Director of Nursing: Frank Sieberns
Managing Director: Tim Birkwald
All intensive care units with adult surgery, internal medicine, neurology and cardiology patients belong to our Department. Although our main goal is to give patients the highest standard of care possible in each respective field, we also provide interdisciplinary care of complex intensive care problems. Moreover, we implement a joint treatment concept involving intensive care specialists and referring physicians: For instance surgeons, internists or neurologists initiate therapy of the primary disease, while doctors in our Department monitor the intensive care therapy requirements.
Department research deals with questions of metabolism and nutrition in critically ill patients as well as sepsis therapy. In addition, in 2007 we completed an important study on percutaneous tracheotomy and the value of open lung puncture.
The goal of intensive care therapy is to transfer patients at the end of therapy in a stable condition to another ward for further care. The readmission rate in the first 24 hours after discharge - a measure of the stability of the patient at the time of transfer - was just 1.87 percent (1/2009 - 6/2009) - and therefore very low for Germany.
| 5,911 | Patients |
| 25,357 | Days in intensive care |
| 359,556 | Hours of respiratory support |
| 4,9 | Days average stay |
| 94 | Beds |
The Department of Intensive Care employs 68 doctors and 297 caregivers on the nursing staff. Over one-third of the nursing staff has specialized training in anesthesiology and intensive medicine. The size of the nursing staff has increased continuously over the past two years.
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