Facilities:

  • General hospitalisation:

Located on the 5th floor of building 5 at Fundación Jiménez Díaz (FJD). It has 28 beds, distributed in 14 double rooms.

  • Post-Surgical Resuscitation Unit:

Located on the 2nd floor in an area adjacent to the operating rooms, supervised by the Anaesthesia and Resuscitation Service. Patients undergoing major surgery are admitted to this unit for post-surgical surveillance.

  • Intensive Care Unit (ICU) and Intermediate Respiratory Care Unit (IRCU):

Patients undergoing high-risk surgeries or requiring respiratory care are admitted to the ICU located on the 3rd floor of building 5, or to the RICU located on the 7th floor of building 6.

  • Operating rooms:

Located on the 2nd floor of the FJD, the operating rooms usually assigned to the Thoracic Surgery service are 207 and 211. Surgical activity is distributed in 2 to 3 sessions per week, in both the morning and afternoon/evening.

  • Outpatient Consultations:

They are located on the 1st floor of the hospital, in the Oncohealth Institute area. There are 3 days of outpatient consultation (Wednesday, Thursday and Friday), overseen by the corresponding attending physician.

Techniques:

The Thoracic Surgery Service offers the most avant-garde surgical techniques in treating thoracic surgery pathologies. Our service primarily uses minimally invasive surgical techniques, which enable complex procedures through small incisions, leading to faster recovery. Our service offers highly advanced techniques such as videothoracoscopic surgery (VATS) and robotic surgery (da Vinci) for the treatment of lung cancer, mediastinal tumours, diseases of the pleura, etc. Our portfolio of services includes:

Mediastinal pathology:

  • Congenital, neoplastic and traumatic lesions of the trachea.
  • Surgical treatment of mediastinal tumours by VATS or robotic surgery.
  • Tracheal surgery.
  • Mediastinitis. Cysts and tumours of the mediastinum.
  • Surgical treatment of myasthenia gravis and other autoimmune diseases.
  • Cervico-mediastinal pathology.

Chest wall pathology:

  • Thoracic trauma. Medical and surgical treatment.
  • Pathology of the sternum and thoracic wall: Deformities, infections and tumours.
  • Pulmonary hernia. Surgical repair with/without prosthesis.
  • Thoracic outlet syndrome.

Pathology of the pleura:

  • Pleural effusions, tumours and empyemas.
  • Spontaneous pneumothorax and haemothorax.
  • Chylothorax.

Pulmonary pathology:

  • Lung cancer.
  • Superior sulcus carcinoma.
  • Low malignant tumours.
  • Adjuvant techniques in treating thoracic malignant tumours.
  • Benign lung and bronchial tumours.
  • Surgery for pulmonary metastases.
  • Solitary pulmonary nodule.
  • Diffuse interstitial lung disease. Lung biopsies.
  • Pulmonary suppurations. Pulmonary abscess. Bronchiectasis.
  • Surgical treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis.
  • Thoracic hydatidosis.
  • Congenital bronchopulmonary conditions.
  • Surgical indications in haemoptysis.
  • Bullous emphysema surgery.

Diaphragm pathology:

  • Surgical pathology of the diaphragm. Diaphragmatic hernias.
  • Infradiaphragmatic pathology with thoracic repercussion.

Pathology of the autonomic nervous system:

  • Thoracoscopic or open sympathectomy.
  • Thoracoscopic or open truncal vagotomy.

Frontier pathology of the thorax and collaboration with other specialities:

  • Cervico-mediastinal masses. Cervicotomy. Cervico-sternotomy. Sternotomy.
  • Spinal surgery (collaboration). Disc hernias.
  • Cardiac surgery. Post-operative anterior mediastinitis. Plastic surgery.
  • Collaboration with other surgical services.