Allergology

Facilities and equipment

Located on the first floor of building 3, it includes:

• 7 doctors' offices.
• 1 room for treating severe reactions.
• 1 administration desk.
• 5 laboratory rooms.
• 1 day hospital.
• 3 waiting rooms.

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The available equipment includes, most notably:

• 5 Nasofibroscopes.
• 8 ENT examination lamps.
• 4 Spirometers.
• 4 Portable computerised spirometry monitors.
• 1 Pulse oscillometry device.
• 2 Ultrasonic nebulisers.
• 2 Pressure nebulisers.
• 3 Nasal endoscopy units.
• 1 Rhinomanometer.
• 1 Acoustic rhinometer.
• 4 Nasal peak flow devices.
• 10 Adult and child peak flows.
• 1 Optical microscope.
• Material for nasal cytology staining.
• Material for preparation of allergenic extracts.
• 1 Centrifuge.
• Examination tables in each room.
• Rhinoscopes.
• 2 Pulse oximeters.
• 1 O2 sat monitor, blood pressure, electrocardiograph.
• 1 Exhaled nitric oxide monitor.
• 1 Defibrillator.
• 1 Cardiopulmonary resuscitation cart.
• Oxygen, medical air and vacuum intakes.
• 4 Refrigerators.
• 4 Freezers.
• 1 Closed-circuit camera for nasal-bronchial provocation with powder.
• 1 7m3 Chamber for bronchial provocation with chemical products.
• 1 Device to perform eucapnic hyperventilation.
• 1 Monitor for isocyanates, chlorine and other chemicals.
• 1 Large-volume environmental sampler.
• 2 Low-volume environmental samplers.
• 1 Particle sampler.
• 2 Kits for qualitative and quantitative olfactometry.
• 3 Exhaled hydrogen meters.
• 1 CO2 meter.
• 6 Subcutaneous infusion pumps.
• 4 Intravenous infusion pumps.
• 8 Frick dermatograph pencils.
• 1 TempTest.

Services portfolio

Our portfolio is one of the most extensive in all the country. Services include sophisticated studies of rhinitis/sinusitis and asthma. Drug and food allergy studies are performed (including drug and food desensitisation protocols), mainly with milk and egg in children that are allergic. There is also a unit to study contact eczema and olfaction. We have a unique, benchmark unit in Spain to study occupational respiratory pathology and measure environmental allergens. We also have a full range of techniques for in vitro allergy studies, including molecular diagnostics.

Techniques

• Skin tests.
• Prick test with pneumoallergens.
• Intradermal reaction.
• Specific (food, medicines).
• Epicutaneous or patch (contact dermatitis) and occupational tests.
• Bronchial provocation tests.
• Non-specific (methacholine, adenosine, mannitol, hyperventilation, eucapnic, exercise).
• Specific with allergens.
• Oral provocation tests.
• Foods.
• Medicines.
• Desensitisation.
• Foods.
• Medicines.
• Lactose and fructose intolerance test.
• Parenteral provocation tests.
• Conjunctival provocation tests.
• Nasal provocation tests.
• Diagnostic study of physical and cold urticaria.
• Respiratory function tests.
• Acoustic rhinometry.
• Rhinomanometry.
• Peak nasal flow.
• Spirometry.
• Bronchodilation test.
• Pulse oscillometry.
• Exhaled nitric oxide measurement.
• Preschool function tests.
• Smell tests.
• Olfactometry.
• Induced sputum.
• Nasal Fiberoptic Endoscopy.
• Nasal cytology.
• Total IgE quantification.
• Determination and quantification of specific IgE antibodies by microarrays (molecular diagnostics).
• Basophil activation test.
• Determination and quantification of other antibodies.
• Determination of cytokines and other inflammatory mediators.
• Molecular biology studies.
• Detection and study of environmental samples.
• Study of complement system functions.
• Identification and characterisation of antigens.
• Preparation and standardisation of antigens.