Site Management Services
Fundación Salud Para el Trópico (Santa Marta)
IPSUM’s main tropical disease focused site was formed by an alliance with the “Tropical Health Foundation” (Fundación Salud para el Trópico) and is located outside the city of Santa Marta, in the northern coast of Colombia. The site has the capacity to assess not only new therapeutics but also the efficacy and safety of vaccines for conditions such as Chikungunya, Dengue, Malaria and Zika. Click here to read more about some of our principal investigators for tropical diseases.
Strategic Orientation Disease Control Public Health Impact
Certified Services
- Tropical Diseases
- Malaria
- Dengue
- Zika
- Chikungunya
- Leishmaniasis
- Chagas disease
Research Areas
- Ethnobotany and ethnomedicine
- Phytopharmacology
- Molecular Epidemiology
- Metabolomics parasite
- Diagnostics tests
- Ecoepidemiology
- New methods of vector control on malaria, dengue, zika, leishmaniasis and Chagas disease
- New antiparasitics for the treatment of leishmaniasis and Chagas disease
Develoment And Evaluation Of New Drugs
- Identification of Medicinal Plants (bioprospection)
- Collection and evaluation of the specific activity of plant extracts in the laboratory
Precilincal And Clinical Phases
- Animal experimentation
- Pharmacodynamics studies
Clínica Universitaria Bolivariana (Medellin)
Certified Services
- Allergology
- Clinical laboratory
- Dermatology
- Digestive endoscopy
- Echocardiography
- Electro diagnostics
- Emergency services
- Internal medicine
- Mastology
- Maternal-Fetal medicine
- Neurology
- Neurosurgery
- Oncology
- Orthopedics
- Otorhinolaryngology
- Pediatric cardiology
- Pediatric infectology
- Pediatric orthopedics
- Pediatric surgery
- Physiotherapy
- Plastic Surgery
- Psychiatry
- Psychology
- Respiratory therapy
- Retinology
- Sports Medicine
- Thorax surgery
- Ultrasound
- Urology
- Endocrinology
- General surgery
- Genetics
- Gynecology
- Head and neck surgery
- Infectology
- Intensive care adults
- Intensive care neonates
- Language therapy
- Maxillofacial surgery
- Nutrition and diet
- Obstetrics
- Ophthalmology
- Osteomuscular
- Palliative care
- Pediatric endocrinology
- Pediatric nephrology
- Pediatric psychiatry
- Pediatrics
- Pharmacy
- Pneumology
- Podiatry
- Radiology and diagnostic imaging
- Rheumatology
- Tissue transplantation
- Toxicology
- Transfusion
- Vaccination
Certified Services
24 Hour Emergencies
In order to deal with emergencies on a 24 hours basis, the Emergency Service has the adequate physical and technological infrastructure to treat trauma, acute and subacute states of diseases of high complexity.
Clinical laboratory
We have high technology equipment in each of the functional areas, which allow us to deliver reliable results and a correct diagnosis.
Areas:
- Blood and urine chemistry, immunology and hormones
- Hematology and coagulation
- Transfusion medicine (availability for all blood components and immunohematology)
- Microbiology (bacteriology, mycology and parasitology)
Laboratory of Pathology and Cytology (external support)
- Processing and reading of biopsies and surgical specimens
- Freezing biopsies
- Cytologies (cervico-vaginal oncology, body fluids)
- Colorations and special studies
Surgery
The Clinic currently has 4 operating rooms equipped for surgery of high complexity.
Surgery is done in the following specialties:
- General surgery
- Urological surgery
- Plastic, aesthetic and reconstructive surgery
- Laparoscopic surgery
- Neurosurgery
- Orthopedics and traumatology
- Ophthalmology
- Endoscopic surgery - ERCP
- Otolaryngology
- Child Surgery
- Obesity surgery
- Chest surgery
- Surgical emergencies
- Dermatological surgery
- Gynecological surgery
- Maxillofacial Surgery
Surgery
Hand in hand with the specialized pneumology service, the Clinic offers comprehensive care in the treatment of outpatients and hospitalized patients with respiratory diseases.
- Respiratory physiotherapy
- Oxygen therapy
- Aerosol therapy
- Ventilator and airway management
- Respiratory rehabilitation
- Respiratory education and prevention
- Bronchial and bronchoalveolar lavage (cytology, microbiology)
- Diagnostic Bronchoscopy (in conjunction with Pneumology)
- Brushing the bronchial
- Bronchial and transbronchial biopsies
Services
- Pulmonary Laboratory
- Spirometry and volume flow curve pre and post bronchodilator
- Maximum voluntary ventilation
- Peak expiratory flow
Intensive Care Unit – ICU
Adult Intensive Care Unit
- We have 12 beds located in independent cubicles that allow the stay of a relative or companion.
- Interdisciplinary group of specialists offering comprehensive patient management.
- Respiratory therapy and nutritional support group.
- Specialized care for the high obstetric risk patients as a complementary service to the Maternal and Child Unit, guaranteeing mothers immediate access to intensive care in the event of requiring it and thus providing continuity supported by the group of specialists who have been managing gestation.
- Renal replacement therapy for adult patients.
- Modern technology in hemodynamic monitoring and mechanical ventilation.
Diagnostic Imaging Unit
- Conventional Radiology and Special Procedures
- Ultrasound
- CT scans
- Endoscopies
Diagnostic Imaging Unit
The Maternal and Child Unit of the Clinic is a national and international reference center, which provides comprehensive care to patients with severe maternal and fetal pathology requiring advanced obstetric and perinatal care, intrauterine therapy and fetal surgery.
Complementary services
Endocrinology
Orthopedics and traumatology
Multidisciplinary team consisting of: pulmonology, chest surgery and respiratory therapy with the best scientific and human quality and with the possibility to offer the following programs:
Pulmonary function:
- Spirometry and / or volume flow curve pre and post beta two.
- Interpretation and realization of arterial gases.
Pneumology
- External consultation where diagnosis, treatment, education and follow-up of pulmonary pathologies are done.
- Hospitalization (floor and ICU) and emergencies.
Diagnostic Procedures
- Diagnostic fiber optic bronchoscopy where bronchial lavage, bronchoalveolar lavage, bronchial brushing, bronchial or transbronchial biopsy are performed.
- Diagnostic or therapeutic thoracentesis.
- Thoracostomy