Cardiology HOSPITALS

Clinic Review

THE INFRASTRUCTURE OF SAMSUNG CLINIC

Samsung is one of the most technologically advanced medical centers in the world. Opened in 1994, this clinic became the implementation of a unique "patient-oriented" concept. For 20 years of practice the whole world came to know about the Samsung medical center. For 14 times it received the first place in the rating of the National Customer Satisfaction Index (NCSI), 16 times the leader in the value of the Korean Customer Satisfaction Index (KCSI), 12 times in a row held an honorable first place in the Quality of Service Index (KS-SQI), and 12 times it was chosen as the main medical brand of Korea. Today, Samsung Medical center is not just a multi-disciplinary clinic, but a hub of future medicine and a global research center. Technologies and equipment in the Samsung clinic have surpassed what is considered to be innovation in the best medical institutions of the world. In addition, in 2012 the clinic proclaimed the concept of "Vision 2020: happiness through health innovation" and is making progress to become a leading hospital in the world. The medical center of Samsung consists of the main building, extension and the Oncology Clinic. In additionthe Proton Center was put into operation in 2014, the construction of the “Ilvon” building and the Outpatient Treatment Center, which is also due to be completed in 2019. The main building of the clinic is 200 thousand square meters, 20 elevated floors and 5 underground floors. The structure of the clinic includes 40 departments, 10 specialized centers, 120 specialized clinics and 1,306 beds. The Samsung Oncology Center is located in a 19-storey building (11 above ground and 8 underground), an area of ??more than 100 thousand ?. There are 655 beds in the cancer center. The Samsung Medical Center is a fully automated medical facility of a new generation that has completely switched to paperless work. The clinic has the world's largest PACS program (file transfer and file archiving system), as well as EMR software (electronic medical records).

Features of the Clinic

CANCER TREATMENT IN SAMSUNG

The oncology clinic of the Samsung Medical Center is the largest in Asia. It is also the first clinic in Korea to provide comprehensive medical care for all types of cancer (from prevention and examination to treatment and rehabilitation, education, and research).

  After the purchase of equipment for proton therapy, the Medical Center of Samsung staffed a full range of all possible methods of cancer therapy: chemotherapy, radiation therapy, immunotherapy, targeted therapy.

The research center Samsung is also exploring the possibilities of gene therapy, new methods of immune therapy as well as bone marrow transplantation.

For the early diagnosis in the clinic there is a PET-CT device.
Center for Colorectal Cancer in Oncology clinic of Samsung is recognized as the # 1 rating in the evaluation of the effectiveness of treatment by the Agency for Monitoring and Evaluation of Health Insurance. 

Also, the Oncology Clinic is leading in the treatment of oncohematological diseases and bone marrow transplantation. One of the developments of the clinic is a new assessment scale, which allows predicting changes in the condition of patients with extranodal NK / T-cell lymphoma.

The structure of the medical institution includes specialized centers for each of the most common types of cancer.

Statistics of specialized cancer centers Samsung:

• more than 100 surgical procedures for telescopic removal of cancerous tumors in patients with early oncology of the lungs annually;
• 500 patients a year with oncology of female organs, 350 performed annually;
• 200 new pediatric patients with oncological diseases, 90-100 stem cell transplant procedures per year;
• 1800 operations for gastric oncology and 1500 surgical procedures for colorectal cancer (this is the world record for the number of cases of surgical treatment of these diseases).

Unique achievements of the Samsung clinic in the fight against cancer:

• the survival rate in the clinic Samsung after stem cell transplantation is one of the highest among the world's clinics;
• the success rate of treatment of children with leukemia is 82%;
• survival in the diagnosis of acute leukemia reaches 50.7%;
• the percentage of successful stem cell transplant is 68% (higher than the US average).

ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION IN THE SAMSUNG CLINIC

In the clinic Samsung transplantation of the lungs, heart, kidney, liver, small intestine, heart valves, bones, skin and cornea, etc are carried out. It is possible to transplant living and dead organs.

  Achievements of the department of transplantology:

• the percentage of liver transplant success in Samsung is one of the highest in the world;
• here for the first time in Korea, a bloodless liver transplantation, transplantation of homogeneous pancreatic tissue, intestinal and liver transplantation to a 3 month old child;
• the 5-year survival rate after the liver transplant procedure is 95%.

CARDIOVASCULAR SURGERY IN SAMSUNG

Samsung Medical Center is the leader in the successful and effectiveness of coronary artery bypass grafting according to Agency for Monitoring and Evaluation of Health Insurance.

  Clinic Samsung is the author of many discoveries and developments in the treatment of cardiovascular diseases. For example, Samsung researchers for the first time in the world found that the cause of complaints of chest pain in patients with severe stenosis of the aortic valve is due to reduction in function of the capillaries, resulting from hypertrophy of the left ventricle.   Also for the first time in Korea successful balloon angioplasty to a patient with chronic thrombotic pulmonary hypertension was performed in the Cardio-cerebrovascular clinic of Samsung .

NEUROSURGERY IN THE CLINIC SAMSUNG

The Neurosurgery Department of Samsung hospital is the leader in Korea and the leading center of the world in terms of success rates, experience and technologies used.

Experience of neurosurgeons Samsung in figures:

• more than 3500 procedures for the therapy of brain tumors, cerebrovascular diseases, spinal cord diseases, pediatric neurological diseases and functional disorders of the brain;
• more than 20 000 outpatients;
• 600 surgical procedures in the treatment of hemorrhagic, ischemic and cerebrovascular diseases;
• more than 500 procedures for the treatment of spinal nerve diseases, including treatment of spinal tumors;
• less than 1% of postoperative complications in the form of paralysis.