“We’ve stopped fearing for our son’s life thanks to the a heart surgery” The parents of Fede, an Argentinian patient, explain how their son survived a sudden death event and is recovering from the surgical procedure to ...
SJD Barcelona Children’s Hospital implants the first wireless pacemaker in an adolescent It is the first time this miniaturised wireless device has been implanted in a minor in Spain
An SJD Barcelona Children’s Hospital study connecting the Mediterranean diet and ADHD, considered by Pediatrics to be one of the best of 2017 The study was directed by José Ángel Alda, Section Head of the Hospital’s Psychiatry and Psychology Department
“They proposed the epilepsy surgery to us after Gara had more than 60 seizures in one day” The surgery, performed by the neurosurgeons Jordi Rumià and Santiago Candela, put an end to the teenager’s refractory epilepsy.
A team of neurosurgeons performs awake surgery on a 15 year old to excise the focus of her epilepsy It is the first time SJD Barcelona Children’s Hospital has performed this complex operation on a conscious patient
“The patient profile is becoming increasingly complex and requires more specific nursing care” Laura Lahuerta was on the EIR resident nurse programme in the first year it ran. Six years later, she assures us that she would do her residency a...
An SJD Barcelona Children's Hospital researcher receives one of the most important awards of the world pediatric oncology It is the first time that an investigator who carries out his work entirely in Spain receives the Odile Schweisguth prize
SJD Barcelona Children’s Hospital opens a new Paediatric Intensive Care Unit The new space is equipped with cutting-edge technology and provides more comfort to families
SJD Barcelona Children’s Hospital will coordinate the participation of patients in the biggest European network to conduct paediatric clinical trials The Hospital will carry out this task as part of the conect4children project, driven by the Innovative Medicines Initiative (IMI)
International Hospital Federation prize for a bed management system devised by the SJD Barcelona Children’s Hospital It was selected out of 160 hospital initiatives from 33 countries around the world
