Neighbors cooperate

New head for new department at Lienz hospital

There has been a new department at Lienz District Hospital since the beginning of the year.(Bild: Martin Oberbichler)

The "Orthopaedic Traumatology" department at the East Tyrolean hospital is also changing and merging two existing departments. A certified and renewed cooperation helps with the treatment of seriously injured patients.

From now on, there will no longer be orthopaedics and trauma surgery, but only "orthopaedic traumatology" at the district hospital in Lienz. As in other hospitals, this step was also taken in Lienz at the beginning of the year. Dr. Eduard Sporer, the previous Head of Trauma Surgery, will take over the post.

Even if occasional delays in trauma surgery are unavoidable, we try to keep the waiting times for our outpatients and surgical patients as short as possible.

Dr. Eduard Sporer

The amalgamation enables better coordination of the operating theaters. However, he points out: "Even if occasional delays in trauma surgery are unavoidable, we try to keep the waiting times for our outpatients and surgical patients as short as possible".

In the previous year, 29,946 patients were treated as outpatients in trauma surgery, a further 2457 as inpatients and 1885 underwent surgery.

Cooperation helps severely injured patients
To ensure that the range of services can continue to exist, the entire spectrum of orthopaedic specialties will be added. This ranges from bone fractures to the treatment of hip or shoulder joints and finger joints.

As Lienz is the most exposed hospital in Austria, there is a local trauma center to ensure the treatment of seriously injured patients. There is also cooperation between Carinthia and East Tyrol to ensure that patients with severe traumatic brain injuries or paraplegia can be transferred to Klagenfurt.