The academic hospital Maastricht (azM) has three main tasks: patient care, education and training, and research. Top clinical and top referral care play important roles alongside standard patient care.
The hospital's top clinical and top referral care are carefully synchronised with the fundamental research of Maastricht University's Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences, as well as with experimental and other clinical research. The four key research areas are cardiovascular diseases, oncology, chronic illness, and mental health and neuroscience.
The azM has 715 beds and more than 4800 staff. It is affiliated with the Dutch federation of university medical centres NFU.
Fact and figures (2007):
Bed occupancy rate of 80.4%
22 operating theatres (OTs), including 15 central OTs, 4 anaesthetic rooms (elective surgery centres) and 3 local day centre OTs
26,429 admissions per year
Average length of stay: 7.5 days
401,637 patients per year in the outpatient clinics
28,196 emergency room visitors
18,031 day-treatment patients
The Department of Respiratory medicine
Within the department of respiratory medicine (chairman: Prof. dr. E. Wouters) 11 consultants and 13 residents cover the whole spectrum of respiratory diseases. More than 2.000 patients are treated as inpatients and more than 11.000 patients are seen as outpatients per year. The most important reasons for hospital admission are COPD, infectious pulmonary diseases and lung cancer. The most advanced techniques are employed for patient care such as digital bronchoscopy including endobronchial ultrasound, endobronchial interventions with laser, argon-plasma beamer and cryoprobe, use of most advanced systems for non-invasive ventilation on the department’s intermediate care facility, weekly tumor board and leading role in innovative new protocols in lung cancer as well as provision of one of the most modern and advanced centres for rehabilitation at CIRO. The department is engaged in education of student in medical studies but also other connected fields and is an educational center for the formation of lung doctors. The CAPNETZ local clinical center Maastricht is headed by Dr. Gernot Rohde, respiratory physician and associate professor at MUMC. Contact
Gernot Rohde
LCC Management
Associate Professor Department of Respiratory Medicine Maastricht University Medical Center P.O. Box 5800, 6202AZ Maastricht, Netherlands Tel.: +31 43 387 7043 Fax.: +31 43 387 5051
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