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The ward with chronic resuscitation and intensive care for children was first opened in March 2014. The current capacity of the ward was six beds. However, there are many patients requiring care from the Children's OPD and they are taking up acute resuscitation and intensive care beds which should be used for new acute admissions. Hořovice Hospital will therefore expand the chronic resuscitation and intensive care unit for children to 13 beds.
"We are the first facility of this type in the Czech Republic. Patients of this type used to stay in intensive care units in larger hospitals or even in the ARO department, where they basically occupied places intended for more acute cases. Our care is very much appreciated and there are many patients who would require our care. Perhaps that is why the management of the hospital in Hořovice decided to expand our premises and we are currently building a new modern pavilion with thirteen beds," says Daniel Blažek, MD, Chief of OCHRIP.
The general public thinks that children with cancer are predominant among chronically ill patients. However, in three years the hospital in Hořovice has not had a single patient with such a disease. The department is dominated by a spectrum of patients with neuromuscular diseases - that is, impaired mobility or impaired transmission of nerve impulses to the muscles. Then there are patients with chronic respiratory distress who need respiratory support. "Before a new patient arrives, we almost always experience parental anxiety about what our ward will look like. But I can confirm that in the vast majority of cases the parents were directly delighted with how modern and how new our ward is and how the specialised care helps their child," adds Daniel Blažek, MD.
The new pavilion for children was built on the basis of suggestions and comments of the staff on the existing premises and also on the basis of the latest knowledge and experience with chronic resuscitation and intensive care from friendly departments of a similar nature from the Czech Republic and abroad. Its timeless design and state-of-the-art equipment guarantee truly perfect care for chronically ill patients from the medical and psychological-aesthetic point of view.
The capacity of the new facility is thirteen beds and each patient will have his own room with complete equipment and social facilities for family members. The ward will be equipped with the latest resuscitation technology. Some of the equipment that the ward will have has only recently been introduced to the market and are the flagships and pride of their respective companies. The ward will have its own anaesthesia machine, a modern ultrasound machine, bed side analysers and in future fibroscopic technology. Nurses and doctors will be able to monitor each patient with remote access, cameras and a sophisticated vital signs monitoring system in a central oval command post.
"We believe that modern technology, comfortable, brand-new facilities and the entire patient environment will enable us to provide our patients with excellent medical and nursing care so that their quality of life will be as good as possible despite their chronic disabilities, and so that many of them will eventually be able to return home to their families and to a normal life as a child at play," says the head of the hospital in Horovice.
