National Cancer Center Dresden
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Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology
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Visceral, Thoracic and Vascular Surgery
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Oral, Maxillofacial and Facial Surgery
Learning Resources
Trainings: Continuing Education
Primary purpose: To provide ongoing education and professional development for medical professionals across various specialties and departments within the hospital.
Target Audience: Doctors, nurses, and other healthcare personnel.
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Trainings: Carus Academy
Primary purpose: To provide lifelong learning opportunities and professional development for a wide range of individuals, with a focus on medical and healthcare-related subjects.
Target Audience: Employees of the university hospital, colleagues from other hospitals/clinics, and those in outpatient and inpatient care.
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Courses: Carl Gustav Carus Medical Faculty
Primary purpose: To provide a diverse range of medical education programs, including Medicine, Dentistry, Public Health, and Medical Radiation Sciences, while fostering international exchange and cutting-edge research in close cooperation with the University Hospital CGC.
Target Audience: Students in the medical fields and international collaborators in medical research.
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Courses: ISIMED Simulator Center
Primary purpose: To enhance safe action in critical medical situations and improve teamwork, using patient simulators and skills trainers.
Target Audience: Healthcare professionals seeking training in various clinical and emergency scenarios.
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Novel Therapies and Diagnostic Methods
Diagnostics
| Radiology | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Type | Name | Availibility | Uses per year |
| Machine | CT scanners | Yes | |
| Machine | MRI (specify the strength and field of the techniques) | Yes | |
| Machine | Mammography (please specify analogic mammography or digital) | Yes | |
| Machine | Ultrasound | Yes | |
| Machine | High-intensity Focused Ultrasound (HIFU) | Yes | |
| Machine | Gamma Camera | Yes | |
| Technique | MRI-guided biopsy | Yes | |
| Technique | Stereostatic biopsy | Yes | |
| Technique | Ultrasound guided biopsy | Yes | |
| Technique | Endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) | Yes | |
| Technique | Angiography | Yes | |
| Nuclear Medicine | |||
| Type | Name | Availibility | Uses per year |
| Machine | Pet Scan | Yes | |
| Machine | PET CT | Yes | |
| Machine | PET/MRI | Yes | |
| Machine | SPECT | Yes | |
| Technique | Sentinel node scintigraphy | Yes | |
| Technique | Bone scintigraphy | Yes | |
| Pathology | |||
| Type | Name | Availibility | Uses per year |
| Machine | Electron microscopy | Yes | |
| Facility | Cytology laboratory | Yes | |
| Facility | Histopathology laboratory | Yes | |
| Technique | Comparative Genomic Hybridization (CGH) | Yes | |
| Technique | FISH (Fluorescence In Situ Hybridization) | Yes | |
| Technique | Cytometry | Yes | |
| Technique | Histochemistry | Yes | |
| Technique | Cytogenetics | Yes | |
| Pathology: Molecular Tests | |||
| Type | Name | Availibility | Uses per year |
| Technique | PGR | Yes | |
| Technique | KI-67 | Yes | |
| Technique | PDL1 | Yes | |
| Technique | PI3KCA | Yes | |
| Technique | ER | Yes | |
| Technique | KRAS | Yes | |
| Technique | BRAF | Yes | |
| Technique | NTRK | Yes | |
| Technique | RET | Yes | |
| Technique | MET | Yes | |
| Technique | EGFR | Yes | |
| Technique | ALK | Yes | |
| Technique | ROS | Yes | |
| Technique | HER2 status | Yes | |
| Technique | COMPREHENSIVE MOLECULAR PANELS | Yes | |
| Others | |||
| Type | Name | Availibility | Uses per year |
| Technique | Bronchoscopy | Yes | |
| Technique | Colposcopy | Yes | |
| Technique | Colonoscopy | Yes |
Treatment
| Surgical Oncology | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Type | Name | Availibility | Uses per year |
| Specialist | Urological surgery | Yes | |
| Specialist | Thoracic surgery | 5 | |
| Specialist | Neurosurgery | Yes | |
| Specialist | Gynaecological surgery | Yes | |
| Specialist | Head and neck surgery | Yes | |
| Specialist | Orthopaedic surgery | Yes | |
| Specialist | Oncoplastic surgery | Yes | |
| Specialist | Paediatric surgery | Yes | |
| Specialist | ENT surgery | Yes | |
| Specialist | Sarcoma surgery | Yes | |
| Technique | Video-assisted thoracoscopy | Yes | |
| Technique | Robotic surgery | Yes | |
| Radiotherapy | |||
| Type | Name | Availibility | Uses per year |
| Machine | Linear accelerators | Yes | |
| Machine | Linear accelerators with IMRT/VMAT | Yes | |
| Machine | Linear accelerators with IGRT | Yes | |
| Machine | Brachytherapy unit | Yes | |
| Technique | Intraperitoneal chemo-hyperthermia ( HIPEC) | Yes | |
| Technique | Stereotactic radiotherapy | Yes | |
| Technique | Chemoembolization | Yes | |
| Technique | Intraoperative Radiotherapy (IORT) | Yes | |
| Technique | Total Body Irradiation (TBI) | Yes | |
| Technique | Radiosurgery | Yes | |
| Technique | Proton therapy | Yes | |
| Machine | Gamma Knife | Yes | |
| Hemato-Oncology / Bone Marrow Transplants | |||
| Type | Name | Availibility | Uses per year |
| Facility | Transfusion Unit | Yes | |
| Technique | Allogenic stem cell transplants | Yes | |
| Technique | Autologous bone marrow transplants | Yes | |
| Technique | Autologous stem cell transplants | Yes | |
| Specialists | |||
| Type | Name | Availibility | Uses per year |
| Specialist | Physician with a specialisation in palliative care | Yes | |
| Specialist | Nurse with a specialisation/certification in palliative care | Yes | |
| Specialist | Physician specialised in pain treatment | Yes | |
| Specialist | Neurologist | Yes | |
| Specialist | Lung physician | Yes | |
| Specialist | Radiotherapist | Yes | |
| Specialist | Psychologist or Psychotherapist | 15 | |
| Specialist | Psychiatrist | Yes | |
| Specialist | Pharmacist | Yes | |
| Specialist | Social worker | 1 | |
| Specialist | Spiritual care | Yes | |
| Specialist | Physiotherapist | Yes | |
| Specialist | Dietitian | Yes | |
| Others | |||
| Type | Name | Availibility | Uses per year |
| Facility | 24-hour Oncological Emergency Department | Yes | |
| Machine | Endoprosthesis | Yes | |
| Technique | Interventional Endoscopy | Yes | |
| Technique | Rigid Bronchoscopy | Yes | |
| Facility | Clinical Trial Center | Yes |
Palliative Care
| Palliative Care | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Type | Name | Availibility | Uses per year |
| Facility | Hospice unit (in the hospital structure or affiliated) | Yes | |
| Facility | Home palliative care availability | Yes |
Resource: Service for International Patients
Primary purpose: To assist foreign patients seeking medical treatment at the hospital by providing support, information, and assistance throughout their healthcare journey, from initial inquiries to financial arrangements and cultural accommodations.
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Classes: Clinical School
Primary purpose: To provide education and support to sick students who are in a clinic, hospital, or spa facility, with the aim of facilitating their successful reintegration into their regular school classes.
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Resource: Pastoral Care
Primary purpose: To provide emotional and spiritual support to patients, their relatives, and hospital employees during times of illness, uncertainty, and emotional distress.
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Resource: Bridge Project
Primary purpose: To provide specialized home care for seriously and terminally ill children, particularly those with cancer, in their familiar environment to enhance their quality of life, alongside medical care, for both the children and their parents.
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Resource: Smoke-free
Primary purpose: To promote smoke-free courses and provide support for individuals who want to quit smoking.
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Facility: Children's Island
Primary purpose: To create a nurturing environment that promotes the well-being, confidence, and joy of children facing medical challenges.
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Facility: Foreign Language Service
Primary purpose: To offer fast and convenient translation services in 25 languages through an in-house interpreter pool, with external services available for certified translations and specific languages when necessary.
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Facility: Luggage Transport
Primary purpose: To provide luggage transportation services from the station to homes or other destinations across Germany.
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Facility: MediClowns
Primary purpose: To offer young patients in the children's clinic and pediatric surgery a welcome distraction and boost their spirits, fostering courage, will to live, and trust during their hospital stay.
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Facility: Accommodation for Relatives
Primary purpose: To provide accommodation for patients and their relatives in close proximity to the university hospital.
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Facility: Hairdresser and Footcare
Primary purpose: To facilitate appointments for patients at a nearby hairdresser and footcare facility.
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EHDEN Participation
The University Medicine Dresden is part of the EHDEN Network of Data Partners.
The European Health Data and Evidence Network (EHDEN) aims to standardize European health data using OMOP-CDM to facilitate research. The project creates a federated network of data sources for easy access by researchers and policymakers. Its goal is to improve healthcare outcomes through better data quality and interoperability.
Primary purpose: The primary purpose of the Data Integration Center (DIC) at Dresden University Hospital is to facilitate the cross-site use of data between patient care and medical research by linking clinical IT systems closely to patient care systems.
Type of information: Unknown.
Data level: Regional level.
Number of records: 1,000,000 patients.
Data range: 2015 onwards.
Open Data Access: Data is not publicly available. Instructions for data request [16].
Contact information: Contact [17].
