tertiary care center


tertiary care center

Hospital care A hospital or medical center for Pts often referred from secondary care centers, which provides subspecialty expertise Tertiary care center
Surgery Organ transplantation, pediatric cardiovascular surgery, stereotactic neurosurgery and others Internal medicine Genetics, hepatology, adolescent psychiatry and others Diagnostic modalities PET–positron emission tomography and SQUID–superconducting quantum interface device scanning, color Doppler electrocardiography, electron microscopy, gene rearrangement, and molecular analysis Therapeutic modalities Experimental protocols for treating advanced and/or potentially fatal disease–eg, AIDS, cancer, and inborn errors of metabolism