Internal Medicine

Internal and Specialised Medicine

Internal medicine is a speciality which uses global and multi-discipline expertise to treat patients with health conditions such as:

• acute illnesses that justify hospitalisation, either because of the seriousness of the symptoms or because of the fragility of the patient. These illnesses may have infectious, respiratory, cardiac, metabolic (diabetes, thyroid), renal, digestive or rheumatoid origins.
• symptoms that are difficult to diagnose (unexplained and prolonged fever, changes to overall health condition, loss of weight, tiredness or anaemia).
• “systemic” illnesses, concomitantly affecting a number of organs and thus complicating the chances of an effective diagnosis.
• poly-pathologies, involving more than one organ related condition.
• rare, auto-immune diseases, vasculitis, treated in collaboration with national reference centres.

Patients are hospitalised either by the emergency ward or directly by their GP, thanks to the close links that are maintained between the community and the hospital.

Internal medicine consultations are available to patients and community GPs.

Interim Head Doctor: Dr Philippe GARRIGUES

Polypathological and Infectious Internal Medicine

The poly-pathologies and infectious internal medicine unit treats:

• adults with poly-pathologies and/or complex medical pathologies which require diagnostic procedures and organised technical and therapeutic resources.
  • This specialised multi-disciplinary treatment is aimed at patients with pathologies affecting a number of different organs and requiring the coordination and synthesis of more than one specialist.
  • It also concerns the investigation of prolonged fever, unexplained inflammatory syndromes, changes to general health, metabolic disorders (hypercalcaemia..), auto-immune or haematological diseases, etc.
• acute or chronic infectious illnesses (AIDS, viral hepatitis, travel and migration related diseases, etc.)

Admissions can be requested by a GP, after consultation with one of the unit’s doctors, or directly via the hospital’s emergency ward.

Post-Emergency Internal Medicine

The Post-Emergency Internal Medicine Unit receives patients with acute medical pathologies requiring rapid treatment.

Admission:

Patients are hospitalised in this unit either on request of their GP, on leaving the hospital’s Emergency ward, or after consultation with one of the Hospital’s specialists.

• Treatment of patients suffering from an acute pathology concerning more than one medical specialisation (cardiology, pulmonology, infectious diseases, neurology, gastroenterology) and requiring hospitalisation.
• Treatment of patients requiring rapid diagnosis and/or therapeutic evaluation.

Unit Manager: Dr Christine JOCKEY-GROS

Practical information

Appointments / Consultations
01 46 39 22 00