Info for visitors
At the Charité, the 2G visit regulation will also be extended to accompanying persons from 18.11.2021: Only vaccinated or recovered patients will be allowed to visit patients on the ward or accompany them in outpatient departments and in the central emergency rooms. In general, the following still applies: Patients may be visited by one person for one hour once a day.
Exceptions to the 2G rule are made for children and adolescents up to the age of 18, for persons who cannot be vaccinated for medical reasons, and for visits to seriously ill patients.
The Department of Internal Medicine specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of rare and complex infectious and pulmonary diseases as well as in respiratory and intensive care medicine. The Department of Internal Medicine specializes in the field of infectious diseases and pneumology of the Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin.
INFECTIOUS DISEASES
The clinic is a certified center for infectious diseases. Doctors at the clinic are experts in multidrug-resistant pathogens, pneumonia, tuberculosis, HIV / AIDS, infectious diseases of travelers, and many other diseases caused by bacteria or viruses.
PNEUMOLOGY (pulmonology)
Patients with lung diseases can get advice and treatment in the clinic. This is particularly specialized in obstructive pulmonary diseases such as Asthma or COPD, restrictive lung diseases such as Pulmonary fibrosis, diseases of the pulmonary vessels such as Pulmonary hypertension, autoimmune diseases of the lung and bronchial carcinomas.
The lung tumor clinic of the clinic is part of the Charité lung cancer center certified by the German Cancer Society (DKG).
RESPIRATORY- AND INTENSIVE MEDICINE
For patients requiring ventilation or weaning, there is a certified Weaning Center. It consists of an interdisciplinary intensive care unit, two respiratory stations and the Charité Center for Out-patient Ventilation and Oxygen Therapy (CABS).
The interdisciplinary intensive care unit is also specialized in severe infectious diseases, acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) and extracorporeal lung replacement procedures.
