Clinic for anesthesiology and intensive care
Clinic for anesthesiology and intensive care
The MMA’s Clinic for Anesthesiology and Intensive Care is highly specialized and modern clinic that provides intensive care and cardiopulmonary resuscitation services.
In more than 20 operating rooms, all kinds of anesthesia are administered for surgeries performed in the fields of thoracic and cardiosurgery, neurosurgery, general and vascular surgery, orthopedics, urology, plastic surgery and burns, otorhinolaryngology and eye surgery, maxillofacial surgery and all other surgical branches.
We would like to particularly stress the administration of anesthesia in patients undergoing kidney, liver, pancreas and bone marrow transplantation. We are the first in our country to introduce intravenous analgo-sedation technique in all endoscopic procedures. A large number of advanced diagnostic procedures (LMS, WEP and REG in children, endoscopies and RCP are performed under short-duration general anesthesia or analgosedation.
The treatment of the most severe, critical cases and wounded cases
The Clinic for Anesthesiology and Intensive Care delivers all kinds of anesthesia, provides intensive care for the most critical cases (trauma, sepsis, pancreatitis, bleeding, shock of various etymology). Each year, the Intensive Care Unit delivers about 15 to 18000 anesthesias on average and, it treats between 3000 and 3500 patients The Intensive Care Unit’s highly qualified and motivated team and the state-of-the-art medical equipment (monitors, ventilators and other devices) ensure treatment of severe trauma and politrauma cases, severe forms of pancreatitis, gastrointestinal bleeding and infectious complications (sepsis) as well. This is the reason why this Unit is recognizable as the place treating the most severe surgical patients.
Organizational structure, services
the Clinic for Anesthesiology and Intensive Care has two departments: Anesthesiology Department, Intensive Care Unit There are sections acting within the framework of each department as their organizational parts and cover certain subspecialties in the field of anesthesiology and intensive care
Education / Scientific work
The medical staff of the Clinic for Anesthesiology and Intensive Care is also involved in teaching activities. Three professors, one assistant professor and three assistants from this Clinic run tailor-made medical education programs for physicians and medical technicians.
In addition to this, the Clinic provides various advanced programs of study in the field of anesthesiology and resuscitation for MMA’s interns, students of the Medical Services Reserve Officers School, Belgrade Medical School and, advanced nursing and vocational medical schools. The Clinic also offers advanced training in certain areas of anesthesiology and resuscitation to physicians and medical technicians serving their military service in military institutions and participants to the peace support missions (AMET) as well as education and training for UN instructors (OPCW).
There are currently 37 physicians undergoing residency program of postgraduate training in the field of anesthesiology and resuscitation at this Clinic.
In the recent years, more than 800 papers of the medical experts from this Clinic have been published in both national and international magazines. Those experts have also participated in national and international congresses and other medical events with their oral presentations.
The Clinic has, for the past several years, been involved in international multicentered projects (SAPS 3, SOAP, CRYCO, and GENOSEPT) as well.
This is the only clinic outside EU which has been given the possibility to work on a project relating to genetic involvement in the sepsis.
A special attention is given to further advancements in the field of anesthesia and intensive care by reliance, in the first place, on the Clinic’s experiences gained in the treatment of the most severe injured and sick patients. That experience the Clinic has acquired by continuous professional education; cooperation with relevant international scientific institutions; entering into Euro Atlantic integrations and, participation in peace support missions as well.
Further development of the Clinic
Proceeding from recommendations and achievements of the European intensive medicine and, having in mind extension of the spectrum of anesthesiologist’s activities, the Clinic plans to introduce into the Intensive Care Unit’s routine practice diagnostic/therapeutic methods such as bronchoscopy, gastroscopy, echocardiography (transesophageal), venous-venous continuous blood filtration and, within the framework of the Anesthesiological service, to establish the Pain management center at the level of the Military Medical Academy and to introduce new techniques of anesthesia administration and patient monitoring. Functional integration of MMA into the National Health System has already been initiated and cooperation with other national and international anesthesiology centers has, for many years, been one of the Clinic’s concerns. It also takes an active part in all national forums and works on projects relating to anesthesia, intensive care and cardiopulmonary reanimation issues.
The greatest advantage of the Clinic is its junior staff including specialists and physicians trained for MMA’s needs, medical technicians and other non-medical personnel all of whom would cherish and continue the tradition of one of the most successful anesthesiology and intensive care services in our country.
The Address and contact phone:
Clinic for Anesthesiology and Intensive Care, MMA
Belgrade, 17 Crnotravska St.
MMA’s Information Office: 381 11/ 2661122, 2662755
Head of the Clinic: 381 11/ 3608 855
Clinic’s Administration Office: 381 11/3608 252
Clinic for Anesthesiology and Intensive Care, MMA
Head of the Clinic for Anesthesiology and Intensive Care
Col. Prof. Predrag Romić, M.D, Ph.D.
Specialist in anesthesiology and resuscitation
