The Berufsgenossenschaftliche Kliniken Bergmannstrost Halle is the

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facility of

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, located in Halle,

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History

In the end of the 19th Century Mining Consultant Bernhard Leopold initiated the construction of the hospital Bergmannstrost for the protection of the health care at accident and disease of miners of these region.

Priorities

Trauma center

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management means the inter-departmental cooperation for senior professionals. Through the

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in one of the shock rooms in Bergmannstrost can be integrated diagnostic and therapeutic life-saving activities simultaneously. Because in the initial treatment of multiple trauma every minute counts, can even choose between life and death, will thus gain precious time and reduced the mortality significantly.

Burn center

The extensive thermal trauma is one of the worst possible injury. The deep, extensive destruction of the

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results not only to local damage in unity with the Collapse of the

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as the

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barrier, but rather by the activation or excessive reaction of the cellular and humoral

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systems (

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) to life-threatening physical reactions (

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)
The

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in Halle offers as one of three Burn centers in

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all services for the treatment of severely burned (first aid, including intensive care and

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of the injured skin areas, rehabilitation).

Centre for Spinal Cord Injuries

Here patients are treated with diseases or abnormalities of the spine and impending or occurring

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Interdisciplinary early rehabilitation

The aim is quickly reintegrate patients of the ''Bergmannstrost'' into the working and social life. The treatment begins before the surgery or as soon thereafter as possible at the bedside.

Departments

¹ Help in coping with the new situation, Therapies for the adoption of a changed body image and psychological

Pain Management Pain management is an aspect of medicine and health care involving relief of pain (pain relief, analgesia, pain control) in various dimensions, from acute and simple to chronic and challenging. Most physicians and other health professionals pr ...

, Therapy of reactive depression or

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are in the focus of the ''Department of Medical Psychology'' in cooperation with the other Department and Clinics, but also the monitoring of family, consulting

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and demand

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of the medical treatment teams. .

References

External links

Official website
of ''Bergmannstrost''
Official website
of ''The International Spinal Cord Society'' {{Authority control Teaching hospitals in Germany Halle (Saale) Medical and health organisations based in Saxony-Anhalt