GRN CLINIC SINSHEIM

Head physician: Prof. Dr Wolfgang Wick
Deputy head physician: Dr Thorsten Lenhard

Tel: 07261 - 66 - 0 (Head Office), 07261 - 66 10 90 (Care Support Centre),
Tel: 07261 - 66 14 74 (Team Assistant)
Fax: 07261 - 66 29 31

There is close co-operation in many areas between the Neurology Department of the GRN Clinic Sinsheim and the Neurological University Clinic Heidelberg. As part of the training rotation for neurological residents, the senior physicians (deputy head physician, senior physician) are themselves senior physicians at the Neurological University Clinic in Heidelberg and are seconded to Sinsheim on a long-term basis for their work. Day-to-day patient care is closely interlinked. For example, patients with mild or moderate strokes receive comprehensive care in Sinsheim, including thrombolysis therapy. Severely affected patients, e.g. with high-grade proximal vascular occlusions, are transferred to the Neurological University Clinic under ongoing lysis therapy (bridging lysis) under emergency medical supervision, so that they can undergo life-saving interventional therapy (catheter-assisted mechanical thrombectomy).

Another integral part of neurological care is the teleneurological service, which is provided by the Neurological University Hospital in Heidelberg and thus offers neurological expertise around the clock. A further cooperation with the neuroradiological department of the neurological university clinic in the form of a teleneuro-radiological service comes into play here. Together, acute strokes can also be treated at night and at weekends with rescue lysis therapy. Furthermore, cerebrospinal fluid diagnostics, particularly for immunological issues and for liquor cytological assessment, are carried out in the cerebrospinal fluid laboratory at the Neurological University Hospital in Heidelberg and are therefore of the highest standard. This is essential for the diagnosis and treatment of infections of the nervous system or autoimmune inflammatory diseases such as multiple sclerosis.

The GRN Clinic's Neurology Department has 18 beds, 6 of which are part of a stroke and recovery ward (IMC), primarily for the treatment of acute strokes, but also other neurological conditions requiring monitoring, such as meningitis or Guillain-Barré syndromes. The remaining beds are available for the diagnosis and treatment of other neurological diseases, whereby almost the entire spectrum of neurological diseases can be treated here. The focus here is on the care of geriatric patients with neurological diseases and patients with psychiatric co-diagnoses. There is a co-operation with the geriatric rehabilitation clinic in Sinsheim. This means that neurological patients, e.g. after a stroke, can be transferred directly and seamlessly to the subsequent rehabilitation programme at the site. In addition to complex stroke treatment, it is also possible to provide complex geriatric treatment in order to enable elderly patients with multiple illnesses to recover more quickly and improve their ability to cope with everyday tasks through targeted and intensified therapy.