The Children's Cardiac Center of the 2nd Faculty of Medicine of Charles University in Prague and the University Hospital in Motol is an integrated cardiology and cardiac surgery department with nationwide coverage, dealing primarily with diagnosis and treatment of congenital and acquired cardiovascular diseases, cardiac arrhythmias, cardiac and circulatory disorders in a growing and developing individual from the fetal period to 18 years of age. It is also involved in the diagnosis and treatment of adults with congenital heart defects.

Care provided

1. Non-invasive and invasive diagnosis of heart disease and drug treatment, including prenatal diagnosis and treatment.
2. A full range of operations for congenital heart defects on the open and closed heart, including the most complex defects. 400-500 patients, from immature newborns to adults with congenital heart defects, are operated on annually.
3. A wide spectrum of medical catheterization interventions for congenital heart defects and catheterization treatment of heart rhythm disorders. On average, more than 300 catheterization interventions are performed annually.
4. Implantation of pacemakers and implantable defibrillators.

Brochure to download:

• Children's cardio center 

Clinic management

The head

MD Ondřej Materna, Ph.D.
Email: ondrej.materna@fnmotol.cz
secretariat
phone: 2 2443 2900
fax: +2 2443 2920 XNUMX

Deputy head for cardiac surgery

MD Roman Gebauer
Email: roman.gebauer@fnmotol.cz

Deputy head for cardiology

doc. MUDr. Peter Kubus, Ph.D.
Email: peter.kubus@fnmotol.cz

Deputy Head of Science and Research

prof. MUDr. Jan Janousek, Ph.D.
Email: jan.janousek@fnmotol.cz

Deputy Head of Teaching

prof. MUDr. Vaclav Chaloupecky, CSc.
Email: v.chaloupecky@fnmotol.cz

Clinic manager

Ing. Miroslav Krejcir, MBA
Email: miroslav.krejcir@fnmotol.cz

Head nurse

M.Sc. Jana Matušíková
Email: jana.matusikova@fnmotol.cz
phone: 2 2443 2905

Doctors

Chief doctors

Intensive care and resuscitation unit

MD Pavel Vojtovič
Email: pavel.vojtovic@fnmotol.cz

Cardiology inpatient department

MD Nina Molíková
Email: nina.molikova@fnmotol.cz

Interventional cardiology

MD Ondřej Materna, Ph.D.
Email: ondrej.materna@fnmotol.cz

Echocardiography and prenatal cardiology

MD Viktor Tomek, Ph.D.
Email: viktor.tomek@fnmotol.cz

Ambulance

MD Petr Hecht
Email: petr.hecht@fnmotol.cz

Arrhythmology

doc. MUDr. Peter Kubus, Ph.D.
Email: peter.kubus@fnmotol.cz

Extracorporeal circulation

Ing. Miroslav Lozek
Email: miroslav.lozek@fnmotol.cz

Doctors

Doctors - cardiac surgeons:

MD Žaneta Bandžuchová
Email: zaneta.bandzuchova@fnmotol.cz

MD Petr Bukovsky
Email: petr.bukovsky@fnmotol.cz

MD Tereza Jančová
Email: tereza.vavrikova@fnmotol.cz

MUDr. Tomas Matejka
Email: tomas.matejka@fnmotol.cz

MD Rudolf Poruban, Ph.D.
Email: rudolf.poruban@fnmotol.cz

MD Petr Šodek
Email: petr.sodek@fnmotol.cz

prof. MUDr. Tomas Tlaskal, CSc.
Email: tomas.tlaskal@fnmotol.cz

Doctors - cardiologists:

MUDr. Klara Fiala
Email: klara.fiala@fnmotol.cz

MD Jiří Gilík
Email: jiri.gilik@fnmotol.cz

MD Jiří Hostaš
Email: jiri.hostasa@fnmotol.cz

MUDr. Vaclav Chaloupecky Jr.
Email: vaclav.chaloupecky@fnmotol.cz

MD Olena Yurchenko
Email: olena.iurchenko@fnmotol.cz

MD Denisa Jičínská
Email: denisa.jicinska@fnmotol.cz

MUDr. Michal Jicinsky
Email: michal.jicinsky@fnmotol.cz

MD Tibor Klein
Email: tibor.klein@fnmotol.cz

MD Karel Koubský, Ph.D.
Email: karel.koubsky@fnmotol.cz

MD Jan Kovanda, Ph.D.
Email: jan.kovanda@fnmotol.cz

MD Katarína Kulihová
Email: katarina.kulihova@fnmotol.cz

MD Sonia Mečiřová
Email: sona.mecirova@fnmotol.cz

MD Caroline Neradilova
Email: caroline.neradilova@fnmotol.cz

MD Irena Otáhalová
Email: irena.otahalova@fnmotol.cz

MD Elizabeth Palatová
Email: alzbeta.palatova@fnmotol.cz

MD Mariana Perušičová
Email: mariana.perusicova@fnmotol.cz

doc. MD Oleg Reich, Ph.D.
Email: oleg.reich@fnmotol.cz

MD Vladimíra Švábová
Email: vladimira.svabova@fnmotol.cz

MD Terézia Tavačová
Email: terezia.tavacova@fnmotol.cz

MD Petr Tax
Email: petr.tax@fnmotol.cz

MD Bc. Michal Vrbik
Email: michal.vrbik@fnmotol.cz

MD Tereza Zmatlíková
Email: tereza.zmatlikova@fnmotol.cz

Members of the Bypass Team:

RNDr. Ivana Black
Email: ivana.cerna@fnmotol.cz

MD Jitka Kuzinová
Email: jitka.kuzinova@fnmotol.cz

Bc. Iva Kaulerová
Email: iva.kaulerova@fnmotol.cz

Sisters

Bc. Jana Kovrzková
Email: jana.kovrzkova@fnmotol.cz
Cardiology inpatient ward nurse
Deputy head nurse

Bc. Kristina Holanová
Email: kristina.holanova@fnmotol.cz
Station nurse of the intensive and resuscitation care unit

Dana Horáková
Email: dana.horakova@fnmotol.cz
Station nurse of cardiac surgery operating rooms

Kateřina Kleinhamplová
Email: katerina.kleinhamplova@fnmotol.cz
Interventional cardiology and echocardiography station nurse

Olga Pokorná
Email: olga.pokorna@fnmotol.cz
Ambulance station nurse

M.Sc. Markéta Gömöová
Email: marketa.gomoova@fnmotol.cz
DKC psycho-social intervention care coordinator and billing to health insurance companies

M.Sc. Alena Matějovská
Email: alena.matejovska@fnmotol.cz
Coordinator of the adaptation process

For patients

Where to find us

• Cardiology clinic: polyclinic, 6th floor, wing E (6E)
• Ambulance for heart rhythm disorders: polyclinic, 6th floor, wing E (6E)
• JIRP: children's monoblock, 6th floor, wing A (6A)
• Cardiology inpatient department, patient reception: children's monoblock, 6th floor, wing C (6C)
• THREW OUT: children's monoblock, 6th floor, wing D (6D)
• Secretariat: children's monoblock, 8th floor, wing D (8D)

Donation account

If you wish to financially support the Children's Cardiocentre, please contact the secretariat, phone 22443 2901, e-mail: detske.kardiocentrum@fnmotol.cz
account number: 50008-17937051 / 0710, vs 2129

Sweethearts

Civic association of parents of our patients Srdíčkáři: www.srdickari.cz

A guide to heart disease in children

Cardiology outpatient clinic

Hospitalization

During hospitalization at the Children's Cardiocenter, patients are admitted according to their current state of health to the inpatient ward or to the JIRP (Intensive and Resuscitation Care Unit - a highly specialized department where doctors and nurses provide children with demanding professional treatment and care at the highest level).

Bed department - contact

• nurses' office - 2 2443 2931
• patient reception - 2 2443 2969 (information Mon - Fri, 13:00 - 15:00)

JIRP

• nurses' office – 2 2443 2970, 2 2443 2973

Invitation to hospitalization

If the child is accepted for the planned treatment, the family usually receives a written invitation 10 days in advance. This invitation contains detailed information about all necessary pre-operative examinations and the conditions of hospital stay.
However, if this information is not sufficient for you, contact the income office by phone. It may also happen that you will be invited to the hospital by phone. In this case, the intake nurse will explain everything necessary to you during the phone call.

The operation of the department is governed by the "house rules", which are available in each bed room.

Accommodation of parents in the inpatient ward

If parents wish to accompany their child in the hospital and take care of them together with medical professionals, we always try to make it possible for them. However, our inpatient department only has a few folding chairs available for parents/accompaniment to sleep. For operational and hygienic reasons, it is necessary for him to take care of a hospitalized child (regardless of the child's age). only one parent/guardian throughout the day, it is possible to alternate parents (according to the needs of the family). Parents '/ escorts' sleeping in the intensive care unit is prohibited.

Another possibility of accommodation in FN Motol

1. Hostel - mostly multi-bed rooms, shared bathroom, kitchenette. It is a cheaper option of accommodation (200, - or 400, - CZK / night), is must be submittedissued by the ward where the child is being treated. Breastfeeding mothers can make use of the better-equipped rooms with bathroom and refrigerator.
2. Hotel type accommodation - The hotel is located in the same building as the hostel, only it has its own separate reception. The parents arrange their own accommodation here, there is no need to submit a request. This is accommodation for a commercial price.

More information:

• www.fnmotol.cz/prakticke-informace/ubytovani-ve-fn-motol

Course of hospital stay

Operation – in this case, it is necessary to take into account that the parent's stay in the hospital has several phases:

We usually admit the patient the day before the planned operation so that all the necessary examinations can be carried out and the family can be given the necessary information. One of the parents can spend the night in the ward or in the hospital dormitory (by agreement, both) and accompany the child to the operating theater the following day.

Morning in day of surgery (after the child leaves for the operating room) the accompanying parent packs his and the child's personal belongings and goes home (becomes a visit). After the operation, the children are placed on JIRP, where parents can visit them by appointment with the doctor.

The next stage will occur after the child's health has stabilized. Parents can participate in the care after agreement with the staff.

The last stage of hospitalization is convalescence child in the inpatient ward. Here, the same rules apply to parents as at JIRP. The only difference is that some parents can sleep, if we have free folding chairs, directly in the children's rooms.

Catheterization procedure (examination, treatment, ablation) - the parent takes care of the child all day throughout the hospitalization (mostly 2-3 days) in the inpatient ward, exceptionally in the JIRP.

Information on parents' meals

Parents accepted to accompany the child have their meals covered by the insurance company. Every morning, they receive meal vouchers for the FNM canteen (food is brought to the ward only for patients). At the appointed time, they hand the child over to the nurse and leave to eat.
Parents of children over the age of six eat on their own. They can use the services of the company canteen (cash payment), or the network of shops and bistros on the hospital premises. It is not possible to warm up the delivered party in the ward.

Personal belongings and valuables

The hospital provides children with everything they need – food, medicine, diapers, potty, dining chair, stroller, toys, clothes, blankets, etc. It is therefore not necessary to take many things with you. There is very limited storage space in the department. During hospitalization, it is not possible to store a stroller or a car seat in the ward, so it is necessary to take them home after admission to the ward.

Parents – light home clothes (several variants, parents cannot wash things), change of shoes, pyjamas, hygiene items, personal medication.

Babies and smaller children – wet wipes for the bottom, a breast pump (we may have a limited number to borrow), favorite toys, etc. If the child is used to only one type of pacifier, milk bottle or pacifier, take them as well.

Older children – pajamas or comfortable home clothes, slippers, hygiene items, towel, favorite toy, book, pillow, etc.

If you take a mobile phone, electronics, jewellery, large sums of money or valuable clothes with you to the hospital, you do so at your own risk.

Visits

For operational and hygienic reasons, only one parent can stay in the ward with a hospitalized child; other relatives fall into the visiting category.

Visiting hours they are in weekdays from 14:00 to 20:00. With regard to other patients, they can be with the child at the same time two people at most. In the rooms of small children, it is necessary to respect the privacy of nursing mothers. Children under the age of 15 are prohibited from entering the inpatient ward and JIRP due to the risk of transmission of childhood infectious diseases.

Na intensive care and resuscitation unit entry is allowed only to the child's parents; visits only in very exceptional cases, in agreement with the attending physician.

Parking

It can be used during the child's hospitalization free parking in the hospital premises on the basis of a document issued by the revenue office. Free parking is not available for visitors.

Other hospital services

There are several grocery stores (including delicatessen and vegetables), a clothing store, a flower shop, a hairdresser, a cafe, several ATMs, a children's book and toy store, and a newsagent's on the hospital grounds. There are also medical supplies and several pharmacies.

Also located here (in the adult section) Space of silence – a place reserved for meditation, religious services and other spiritual activities provided by the hospital clergy. More information: www.fnmotol.cz/prakticke-informace/poskytovani-spiritualni-pece

• Patient Booklet - MyCareLink Home Monitoring Settings (1,46 MB)
• Booklet for patients with arrhythmic cardiomyopathy (973,73 KB)
• Booklet for patients with biventricular pacemaker (1,78 MB)
• Booklet for patients with dilated cardiomyopathy (945,79 KB)
• Booklet for patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (907,72 KB)
• Booklet for patients with implantable defibrillator (1,18 MB)
• Pacemaker patient brochure (1,34 MB)
• Booklet for patients with catecholaminesensitive polymorphic ventricular tachycardia (1 KB)
• Booklet for patients with Brugado syndrome (907,03 KB)
  Booklet for patients with long QT syndrome (969,36 KB)
• Booklet for parents of pediatric patients with electrophysiological implants (1,26 MB)
• MyCareLink home monitoring - instructional video with subtitles (4,82 MB)
• Warning tones for implantable defibrillators - information video with subtitles (8,57 MB)
• Pacemakers, cardioverter-defibrillators, implantable recorders (3,66 MB)
• Catheter ablation (2,40 MB)
• Catheterization intervention (2,76 MB)
• Molecular genetic testing in cardiology (2,21 MB)
• Congenital heart disease surgery (3,40 MB)
• Prevention of RSV infection by passive immunization (2,27 MB)
• Heart Failure (4,26 MB)
• Heart transplant (2,18 MB)
• Congenital connective tissue disorders (2,73 MB)
• Reveal LINQ + MyCareLink monitor - instructional video with subtitles (73,10 MB)

Informed consents general

Consents to download:

• IS 0001b-v2 - Consent of the legal representative to the hospitalization of a minor patient or a patient with limited disabilities at the Motol University Hospital (880,70 KB)
• IS 0002b-2 - Consent of the legal representative to provide information about the patient's health status (458,35 KB)
• IS 0003b - Legal representative's consent to anesthesia (73,18 KB)
• IS 0004 - negative reverse (39,17 KB)
• IS 0000_0005ab-2 with administration of transfusion products (813,56 KB)
• IS 0007b - Consent of the legal representative to insert the catheter into the central veinsy (57,86 KB)
• IS 0009 - with processing of personal data (34,64 KB)

Children's cardio center

Consents to download:

• NLPP_IS_2129_0566ab-4 invasive electrophysiological examination and catheter ablation of arrhythmogenic substrate (80,63 KB)
• IS 0567 - Implantation of the Amplatz occluder (815,94 KB)
• IS 0568 - Catheterization angioplasty (630,08 KB)
• IS 0569 - Atrioseptostomy (624,85 KB)
• IS 0570 - Introduction of a long-term central venous catheter (631,08 KB)
• NLPP_IS_2129_0571ab-4 with cardioverter-defibrillator implantation (80,69 KB)
• IS 0572 - Cardiac catheterization and angiocardiographye (622,53 KB)
• IS 0573 - Catheter occlusion of open arterial duodenum (629,58 KB)
• NLPP_IS_2129_0574ab-4 with pacemaker implantation (85,79 KB)
• IS 0575 - Catheterization valvuloplasty (626,86 KB)
• IS 0576 - Operational performance (850,14 KB)
• IS 0577 - Use of part of the collected thymus for drug production (49,35 KB)
• Informed consent to the administration of Synagis (37,48 KB)
• IS 2129_0579ab-1_IS with heart transplantation (804,05 KB)
• IS 2129_0580ab-1 with the administration of an unregistered antiarrhythmic

• Performance numbers and results
• Teaching
• Events and seminars
• Publications
• Professional companies

Numbers of performances

Graphs:

Results

The average 30-day mortality in operations - including operations for the most complicated critical heart defects over the last 10 years was less than 1%. According to the audit of the European Association of Cardiothoracic Surgeons (EACTS), comparing the results of European children's cardiac surgery centers taking into account the complexity of the treated heart defects, the Children's Cardiac Center of the Faculty Hospital in Motola was ranked in an excellent place among all European centers.

Teaching

The Children's Cardio Center is an accredited workplace II. type for postgraduate education in the field of pediatric cardiology.

Undergraduate teaching

Teaching pediatric cardiology and cardiac surgery at the 2nd Faculty of Medicine, Charles University.

Postgraduate teaching

Offer of professional internships and study stays (supervisor)

• Pediatric Cardiology (Assoc. Prof. Peter Kubuš, MD, Ph.D.)
• Pediatric Cardiac Surgery (Roman Gebauer, MD, Rudolf Poruban, MD, Ph.D.)
• Echocardiography in children (MUDr. Viktor Tomek, Ph.D.)
• Prenatal echocardiography (MUDr. Viktor Tomek, Ph.D.)
• Extracorporeal circulation / ECMO (Ing. Miroslav Ložek)
• Invasive cardioangiology and interventional catheterization in children (Ondřej Materna, M.D., Ph.D., Oleg Reich, M.D., Ph.D.)
• Electrocardiography and electrophysiology in children (Prof. Jan Janoušek, MD, Ph.D., Peter Kubuš, MD, Ph.D.)
• Intensive care for children (Pavel Vojtovič, MD)
• Basics of clinical diagnostics of congenital heart defects (MUDr. Petr Hecht)

 Postgraduate courses

• One-week postgraduate course in pediatric cardiology and cardiovascular surgery: Heart disease in children - diagnosis and treatment
• Weekend ECG course for pediatricians and pediatric cardiologists

Events and seminars

• Šamánkovy Poděbrady and the Motol seminary of pediatric cardiology and cardiovascular surgery
• One-week postgraduate course in pediatric cardiology and cardiovascular surgery: Heart disease in children - diagnosis and treatment
• Weekend ECG course for pediatricians and pediatric cardiologists
• Joint Conference on Pediatric Cardiology and Cardiac surgery Munich - Prague
• Prague Symposium on Congenital Heart Disease
• 49th Annual Congress of the European Association of Pediatric Cardiology (AEPC), 2015

Publications

The current list of publications of the Children's Cardiocenter is available on the website of the 2nd Faculty of Medicine of the UK:
www.lf2.cuni.cz/detske-kardiocentrum/prehled-publikaci

Professional companies

European Association of Pediatric Cardiology (AEPC)

National Delegate:
Prof. MUDr. Jan Janousek, Ph.D.

Czech Society of Cardiology

CCP Pediatric Cardiology Working Group Committee:                       
Prof. MD Jan Janoušek, Ph.D. – the chairman
Doc. MD Peter Kubuš, Ph.D.
MD Ondřej Materna, Ph.D.
MD Viktor Tomek, Ph.D.

Czech Society of Cardiovascular Surgery Czech Medical Society JE Purkyně

Members:
MD Žaneta Bandžuchová  
MD Petr Bukovsky 
MD Roman Gebauer
MUDr. Tomas Matejka
Prof. MD Tomáš Tláskal, CSc.

European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery (EACTS)

Members:
MD Petr Bukovsky
MD Roman Gebauer
MD Rudolf Poruban, Ph.D.
MD Petr Šodek
Prof. MD Tomáš Tláskal, CSc.

European Congenital Heart Surgeons Association (ECHSA)

Member:
Prof. MD Tomáš Tláskal, CSc.

World Society for Pediatric and Congenital Heart Surgery (WSPCHS, World Society for Pediatric and Congenital Heart Surgery)

Founding Member:
Prof. MD Tomáš Tláskal, CSc.

Structure

Cardiology inpatient department
18 beds, including monitored beds for intermediate cardiology care

Intensive care and resuscitation unit
12 beds for postoperative resuscitation and cardiac intensive care

Cardiac surgery department
2 operating rooms with extracorporeal circulation

Department of Interventional Cardiology

• catheterization laboratory
• electrophysiological laboratory

Echocardiography

• transthoracic and esophageal echocardiography
• fetal echocardiography and prenatal consultation

Ambulance

• cardiology outpatient clinic
• heart rhythm clinic
• vascular ambulance

Medevac

Since 1999, the FNM Children's Cardio Center has participated in the MEDEVAC program implemented by the Ministry of the Interior, which serves the humanitarian evacuation of disabled residents from war-affected areas. The program is mainly intended for seriously ill children, for whom it is not possible to provide treatment in local conditions, and treatment in the Czech Republic will save their life or significantly improve its quality. As part of the program, we treated children from Iraq, Kosovo, Kenya, Afghanistan, Cambodia, Syria, Libya, Burma and Pakistan. The doctors of the Children's Cardiocenter participate in a number of charitable missions abroad.

Mater Hospital Nairobi

Since 2011, doctors and nurses from the Children's Heart Center have been helping with the diagnosis and treatment of children with congenital heart defects in Kenya. The Mater Hospital in Nairobi has long been striving for the availability of cardiac surgical treatment even for the poorest children in the country. All of our experts have waived their fees for their work in the project to make the treatment of these children possible.

Career

Thank you for your interest in working at a prestigious workplace in the Czech Republic

Contact

Secretariat
phone: 2 2443 2900
fax: +2 2443 2920 XNUMX
Email: detske.kardiocentrum@fnmotol.cz 

Other contacts:

• Ambulance (patient ordering)
  tel.: 2 2443 2975, 2 2443 2976, 720 816 794
• Patient admission
  phone: 2 2443 2969
• Outside working hours  (consulting services / emergency income)
  tel .: 2 2443 2970, 2973

Adress
Children's cardio center
University Hospital in Motola
In Úval 84
150 06 Prague 5

Location

• Cardiology outpatient clinic, including an outpatient clinic for heart rhythm disorders: children's polyclinic, 6th floor, wing E (6E)
• Cardiology inpatient department: children's monoblock, 6th floor, wing C (6C)
• Echocardiography and fetal cardiology: children's monoblock, 6th floor, wing D (6D)
• JIRP: children's monoblock, 6th floor, wing A (6A)
• Secretariat: children's monoblock, 8th floor, wing D (8D)

Donation account: account number: 50008-17937051 / 0710, vs 2129
If you wish to financially support the Children's Cardiocentre, please contact the secretariat, tel. 2 2443 2901, e-mail: detske.kardiocentrum@fnmotol.cz