Paediatric and adolescent medicine
In addition to treating children with paediatric diseases, we also care for patients from other specialties, including ear surgery, orthopaedic surgery, plastic surgery, vascular surgery, adult surgery, urology, and neurosurgery, among others. We work closely with our colleagues in paediatric surgery, paediatric intensive care, and neonatal care.
We are one of the few hospitals in Sweden designated by the National Board of Health and Welfare to provide national specialised medical care in the following areas:
- Chronic lung diseases in children
- Intestinal rehabilitation for children
- Evaluation for epilepsy surgery
- Congenital metabolic diseases
- Emergency and planned visits in Malmö and Lund
We operate in both Malmö and Lund, offering emergency care, inpatient care, day care, and outpatient services. We provide highly specialised care in certain diagnostic and treatment areas and accept patients from across southern Sweden.
Our interdisciplinary teams combine expertise to provide children with the best possible care and treatment. These teams include doctors, nurses, paediatric nurses, and assistant nurses, as well as dietitians, welfare officers, physiotherapists, occupational therapists, psychologists, and special needs teachers.
Care is provided in accordance with the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and NOBAB standards, which focus on children and families.
Our vision is to deliver highly specialised and specialised paediatric care of the highest international standard to children and adolescents.
We employ approximately 650 staff members. Each year, we handle around 70,000 planned outpatient visits and 40,000 emergency visits across our paediatric departments. Our departments and clinics focus on different diagnoses and treatments to ensure patients receive the highest quality care.
Research
The paediatrics unit conducts advanced research in various paediatric subspecialties, often in collaboration with national and international research networks and research groups. Many of our staff hold doctorates, and we have active doctoral students across multiple professional categories.
We conduct outstanding research in the following areas:
- Autoimmune diseases in children, such as diabetes and coeliac disease
- Childhood cancers
- Paediatric rheumatology
- Paediatric endocrinology
- Paediatric haematology
- Infections in children
- Coagulation diseases in children
- Lung diseases in children
- Metabolic diseases in children
- Kidney diseases in children
- Paediatric neurology
- Child obesity
- Infant nutrition