Traumatology Department

Specialty: TRAUMA SURGERY – TRAUMATOLOGY

A trauma surgeon is a specialist who is able to assess and manage injuries as a whole, i.e. not only limb injuries but also cavity injuries, to recognise an immediate threat to life, to set treatment priorities and to carry out urgent therapy immediately. They specialise in saving lives and minimising the consequences of injuries and disability, including mass casualty incidents and disasters.

Trauma care has three levels:

• The basic level is provided at outpatient or inpatient surgical, traumatology or orthopaedic units. It includes basic trauma care.
• The higher level of care is provided in inpatient healthcare facilities in which it is possible to assemble a team of specialists from several surgical fields, which have sufficient intensive care facilities and ensure the continuity of follow-up care, especially rehabilitation. It includes all specialised trauma healthcare, except for care provided exclusively in Trauma Centres for adults and children and in Burn Centres. The healthcare facilities authorised to provide the higher level of trauma care are determined by the health insurance companies. The scope of healthcare that insurance companies contract with a specific provider of this level of trauma care depends mainly on the appropriate staffing, material and technical equipment of the healthcare facility and on the quality of the healthcare provided.
• The highest level of care is provided at the Level I Trauma Centre for adults or children , at the Burns Centre, and is determined by triage.

The Traumatology Department of Jihlava Hospital is an accredited level II training centre for the field of Trauma Surgery.

The Traumatology Department provides care on a separate standard ward with 26 beds.
Acute intensive inpatient care is primarily provided by the Orthopaedic – Traumatology ICU with 10 beds.
The Traumatology Department provides continuous care 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

Spectrum of care provided:

• Treatment of injuries, both monotrauma and combined injuries and polytrauma
• Surgical and conservative treatment of upper and lower limb fractures
• Surgical and conservative treatment of pelvic and acetabular injuries
• Conservative treatment of spinal injuries
• Conservative and surgical treatment of injuries to the chest, abdomen and retroperitoneum (in cooperation with Surgery and Urology)
• Conservative and surgical treatment of facial skeleton injuries (in cooperation with ENT)
• Surgical and conservative treatment of muscle, tendon and ligament injuries
• Conservative treatment of craniocerebral injuries
• Care of thermal injuries
• Injuries of the paediatric skeleton, cavity injuries in children, organisation of care for severe trauma in children (in cooperation with the Paediatric Department)
• Our staff also take part in the work of the Type I Emergency Department

On average, we perform 1,100 trauma operations and 18,000 outpatient treatments a year