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Teaching department of burns and reconstructive surgery

About us

Department of Burns and Reconstructive Surgery is highly specialized medical center, which offers preventive and therapeutic care to adults and children as well. High quality medical care is focused on burns, wounds and defects of different origin, losses of soft tissues, decubitus and diabetic foot. Both, conservative and operative treatment is provided. 

The department is devided into the two wards, intensive care unit and own operative block. An essential part of the department forms Central Tissue Bank, which ensures taking, elaboration and storage of tissues and cells for medical use in plastic and reconstructive surgery. 

Our team

  1. ADC Clinical experience with the use of negative pressure wound therapy combined with a silver-impregnated dressing in mixed wounds: A retrospective study of 50 cases / P. Bukovčan ... [et al.]
    In: Wounds - a Compendium of Clinical Research and Practice. - Vol. 28, No. 8 (2016), s. 255-263
  2. ADM Mesenchymal stem cells for chronic wounds therapy / P. Záhorec ... [et al.]
    In: Cell and Tissue Banking. - Vol. 16, No. 1 (2015), s. 19-26
  3. ADN Súčasné možnosti využitia somatických kmeňových buniek v humánnej medicíne / M. Boháč ... [et al.]
    In: Lekársky obzor. - Roč. 63, č. 3 (2014), s. 104-109
  4. AED Súčasný pohľad na liečbu chronických rán pomocou mezenchymálnych kmeňových buniek / P. Záhorec ... [et al.]
    In: Biomedicínsky výskum 1. [elektronický zdroj]. - ISBN 978-80-971370-0-7. - Bratislava : Mamma Feminina, 2013. - S. 35-38 [CD-ROM]
  5. AFD Možnosti využitia mezenchymálnych kmeňových buniek z tukového tkaniva v liečbe popáleninových jaziev / Peter Záhorec
    In: Zborník vedeckých prác študentov a doktorandov Lekárskej fakulty Univerzity Komenského v Bratislave. - ISBN 978-80-223-3848-6. - Bratislava : Univerzita Komenského, 2015. - S. 209-212
  6. AFG Možnosti využitia mezenchymálnych kmeňových buniek z tukového tkaniva v liečbe popáleninových jaziev / P. Záhorec ... [et al.]
    In: 20. výroční konference České společnosti popáleninové medicíny ČLS JEP. - ISBN 978-80-210-7875-8. - Brno : Masarykova univerzita, 2015. - S. 51
  7. DAI Možnosti využitia mezenchymálnych kmeňových buniek z tukového tkaniva v liečbe popáleninových jaziev / Peter Záhorec ; školiteľ Ján Koller
    Bratislava : [s.n.], 2015

Education - information for students

LECTURES

General medicine - 3. year and 5. yaer

Dentistry - 3. year, 4. year

CONSULTATIONS

General medicine - 6. year - before state exam in Surgery

PRACTICALS

General medicine:

- 3. year students start at 8:15 am

- 6. year students start at 7:00 am

Theoretical knowledge required:

skin anatomy and physiology, ethiology and classification of burns

Equipment required:

scrub uniform and hospital shoes (outdoor shoes are NOT allowed)

Program of practicals:

- presence and examination of student´s knowledge

- conservative therapy of wounds and defects

- surgical therapy of deep burns

- skin grafting

- visit of intensive care unit

- patient examination and admission (6. year students)

Practicals will be enriched with e-learning. 

For late comming or unprepared students a possibility to substitute will be offered in the end of semester. The date will be announced on this web site. It is required to register for substitution at least one day before. 

 

 

Otázky na štátnu skúšku a Odborná literatúra

Research

 

Biological skin substitutes in the treatment of extensive burns
Skin cell cultures and their application in support of donor sites healing
Enzymatic debridement of burns
Negative pressure wound therapy
Preparation and application of human alogeneic acellular dermis
Topical antimicrobial therapy in prevention and treatment of burn wound infection 
Mesenchymal stem cells in burn scars reconstructions