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SJD Barcelona Children's Hospital

Passeig Sant Joan de Déu, 2, 08950 Esplugues de Llobregat

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Equipo de profesionales durante una cardiocirugía en un niño en el Hospital Sant Joan de Déu Barcelona

In the Heart Area we have the best experts to treat all manner of cardiac illnesses.

The Heart Area comprises the different departments which provide services to patients with diseases: the Cardiology Department and the Heart Surgery Department.

Our professionals diagnose and treat babies, children and adolescents who present with congenital structural heart defects, arrhythmias and cardiac electric conduction disorders, and congenital or acquired heart pathologies from the fetal stage to adulthood.

We strive to offer the patient the best possible treatment with the standards of the best hospitals in the world. We are one of the areas with the lowest surgical mortality rates in Europe, as well as a very low re-operation rate. 

Accreditations

National reference centre (CSUR), recognised by the Spanish Ministry of Health, in Infant Cardiac Surgery and treatment of congenital heart disease in children and neonates.

National reference centre (CSUR) in Pediatric Arrhythmology and Electrophysiology

Why SJD Barcelona Children's Hospital?

Our experience and efficacy

The Heart Area is one of the areas with the lowest surgical mortality rates in Europe, as well as a very low re-operation rate. 

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Our personalised, patient-centred multidisciplinary care

Heart defects are diagnosed and treated early with minimal hospitalisation so that the child's life can go back to normal as soon as possible. 

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Recognition of our excellence

Currently, our outcomes are better than the European average (European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery Registry) and equivalent to leading centres worldwide such as Boston Children's Hospital. The survival rate for our cardiac surgery patients is 98.8%.

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Our outcomes

8.000

Visits by children with heart disorders

250

Surgeries per year

98
%

Survival rate after surgery

Specialties and services

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Treatments we offer

Heart surgery on congenital malformations
Fetal and pediatric cardiac catheterisation
Ablation for childhood cardiac arrhythmias
Fetal cardiology
Pediatric Intensive Care

Our cardiovascular surgery professionals

“We treat more than 8,000 children with heart disorders every year. We are proud to have the highest survival rate in Europe.”

Anaesthesiology

Nursing

  • Isaac Moll Adrián
  • Silvia Torner Sola
  • M. Teresa Equirol López
  • Laura Obón Jiménez
  • Cristina Rey Gómez
  • Laia Combalia Colomer
  • Ariadna Sánchez Herranz

Perfusion

  • Rosa Aguilar Villalba
  • Sonia Acero Amaya
  • Esther Vallmajó Roura

Research

The Heart Area has its own research group called Cardiovascular Diseases in Development. It was created within the Cardiology Department at SJD Barcelona Children’s Hospital and currently consists of three main lines of research. 

  1. The first is led by Dr Georgia Sarquella and the activity is focused on arrhythmias and sudden death.
  2. The second, led by Dr Sánchez de Toledo and Dr Camprubí, studies the impact of congenital heart disease on babies’ development and, more specifically, on their neurodevelopment.
  3. The focus of the third line is studying the impact on the heart of systemic diseases such as sepsis and  viral infections.

Teaching

SJD Barcelona Children's Hospital is a university hospital affiliated with the Universitat de Barcelona, and so we share our knowledge and train professionals to specialise in high-complexity medicine.

Master’s degree in Pediatric Cardiology

The objective of the Master's Degree in Pediatric Cardiology is to provide comprehensive training in the Pediatric Cardiology subspecialty. It is aimed at graduates in Medicine and Surgery who have specialised in Pediatrics or Adult Cardiology.

Duration: 2 course
Management: Dr. Joaquim Bartrons Casas
Qualification: Master (own title of the Universitat de Barcelona)
Accreditation: 126 ECTS credit

Patients stories

“Interventional electrophysiology was a revolution. It allowed us to start curing many more patients with arrhythmia”
A study of 150 members of the same family to determine the causes of a genetic disease that leads to sudden death
Cardiooncology and Cardiac Rehab, a new Unit to study cardiovascular risk markers
Sant Joan de Déu introduces a new cardiac device for diagnosing arrhythmias
"Our great challenge is to cure patients with heart disease and ensure a good quality of life in adulthood”