Description
The project focuses on developing multidisciplinary dispensary care for children with perinatal burdens. The follow up health care for such children is still not as efficient as it should be, especially not in the area of prevention and technology – the equipment of each division is obsolete and outmoded, or the divisions do not have the necessary equipment. To provide timely and perfect diagnostics using up-to-date instrumentation, investments are needed. Therefore the project´s main focus is to provide secondary prevention services of the follow-up dispensary care and purchase of equipment. The secondary focus of the project is to provide out-patient care for medical personnel and supplies of necessary medical devices – all aimed at the prevention of negative consequences of perinatal burdens. The project will create conditions for the optimal out-patient care for infants with perinatal burden with the highest quality methods of diagnostic and therapeutic care in the field.
Summary of project results
The Neonatal and Gynaecological-obstetric Department at TBRH has served as the Perinatological Centre for the Zlín Region since 1997. In terms of the number of births (app. 2500 children are born annually) belongs among the largest in the Czech Republic. More than 12% of newborns are children with a low birth weight and of this number, 80 – 90 children are born weighing less than 1,500 grams. The project was focused on developing multidisciplinary dispensary care for children with perinatal burdens and on modernization of the perinatological centre. Especially the improvements of the quality of diagnostic and therapeutic care in the area of eye defects, congenital heart defects, heart rhythm disorders, pathological findings in the brain and abdominal cavity were needed. Thirteen new devices have been put into use in the neonatal, paediatric, ophthalmology and ENT departments - the joint Paediatric and Neonatal Outpatient Department has now been equipped with a sonographic device which allows examinations of the brain, heart and urogenital tract. The Ophthalmology Department now has a retinal camera at its disposal, and the ENT Department a flexible rhino-laryngo video endoscope. Moreover, the project included appropriate trainings and educational activities for the nursing and medical staff. The project created conditions for the optimal out-patient care for infants with perinatal burden with the highest quality methods of diagnostic and therapeutic care in the field and created the comprehensive programme of primary and secondary prevention.
Summary of bilateral results