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Berufsgenossenschaftliche Unfallklinik Ludwigshafen
BG Trauma Clinic Ludwigshafen
 
modern glass - steel - architecure of BG Trauma Clinic Ludwigshafen
modern glass - steel - architecure of BG Trauma Clinic Ludwigshafen

Emergency centre with infinite reach

The BG Trauma Clinic in Ludwigshafen is one of the largest centres for trauma surgery in Europe and is among Germany's most prestigious addresses. Moreover, it has the most up-to-date centre for the treatment of severe and very severe burns at its disposal. The clinic also specialises in spinal cord injuries, orthopaedics and intensive care, pain therapy and rehabilitation medicine. As a trauma centre, the clinic enjoys an excellent reputation that reaches far beyond the local area. Since April 2005, the clinic has also officially provided care to burns victims from Alsace. This has been agreed between the health insurance institutions, the regional administration of Alsace and the BG Clinic and is an important step towards cross-border cooperation in the health sector.
 
 

Fast, competent assistance

In terms of personnel, organisation and medical equipment, the clinic is ideally prepared for the provision of emergency medical care. A highly specialised team of doctors, nurses and technical staff are available to provide care to severely injured patients around the clock. Indispensable in the chain of survival: "Christoph 5". This is one of the first German rescue helicopters and has been stationed here since 1973. It is called upon over 1,000 times a year and operates in a radius of up to 70 km. Since 2004, the clinic has also provided the staff for the first intensive-transport vehicle in Rhineland-Palatinate. By the end of its first year, the mobile intensive care unit had already transported 300 severely ill patients from hospital to hospital. In the following year, the clinic became part of a unique nationwide rescue service model: since then, it has been one of four emergency medical centres in Rhineland-Palatinate.
 
 

Expertise for BG

The clinic provides expertise throughout the entire rehabilitation process, especially for the statutory accident insurer. Example: Centre of Excellence for Rehab Advice. This concerns a prognosis for medical and vocational rehabilitation in cases with a complicated healing or problematic reintegration process. This check is conducted during a short stay in the clinic. The result is convincing: within a short period the service has already become a central component of therapy management.
A six-monthly quality panel, in which the managing directors of the district administrations and the chief physicians of the clinic are represented, aims to improve collaboration between the professional associations and the clinic. BG-specific issues are discussed, in particular the coordination of therapy management.
The hospital has 418 beds. Each year, an average of 10,000 inpatients and some 20,000 outpatients are treated. In 2008, the surgical team performed some 38,000 surgical procedures. The "Verein für Berufsgenossenschaftliche Heilbehandlung Heidelberg e.V." (Association of BG Medical Treatment Heidelberg e.V.) is the clinic's sponsor.
 
Departments / InstitutesBettenLeitung
Department of Trauma Surgery and Orthopaedic Surgery231PD Dr. Paul Alfred Grützner
incl. Centre for Spinal Surgery Dr. Jürgen Bochert, Dr. Stefan Matschke, Dr. Bahram Biglari
incl. Special rehabilitation services: "Berufsgenossenschaftliche Stationäre Weiterbehandlung (BGSW)" (co-operative vocational, inpatient further treatment)
Complex inpatient rehabilitation measures (KSR)
Centre of Excellence - Rehab Advice Rehabilitation		 Dr. Henry Köhler
Department of Hand, Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery - Severe Burns Injuries Centre -108Univ. Prof. Dr. Günter Germann
incl. Special rehabilitation services: "Berufsgenossenschaftliche Stationäre Weiterbehandlung (BGSW)" (co-operative vocational, inpatient further treatment)
Complex inpatient rehabilitation measures (KSR) , Rehabilitation Unit for Burns Patients		  
Department of Septic Surgery, Bone, Joint and Prostheses Infections39Dr. Volkmar Heppert
Department of Paraplegics and technical Orthopaedics25Dr. Bahram Biglari
Department of Anaesthesia, Intensive Medicine and Pain Therapy12Prof. Dr. Stefan Kleinschmidt
Department of Diagnostic Radiology-Dr. Rainer Simon
   
 
07-31-2010 | 20:43 Uhr

Berufsgenossenschaftliche Unfallklinik Ludwigshafen
BG Trauma Clinic Ludwigshafen

Ludwig-Guttmann-Str. 13
D-67071 Ludwigshafen
Tel.: +49 (0)621 / 6810-0
Fax: +49 (0) 621 / 6810-2400
info@bgu-ludwigshafen.de
www.bgu-ludwigshafen.de
 
 

Fabian Ritter

Managing Director
 
 

Prof. Dr. Paul Alfred Grützner

Chief Medical Officer and Medical Director of the Department of Trauma Surgery and Orthopaedic Surgery 
 
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