Day surgery for children
A stay in hospital is none too pleasant for adults but even less so for children. Fortunately with modern medicine, routine surgical proceedings can often be conducted on an outpatient basis.
Surgery in the morning, back home by the evening
BIG gives you support in day surgery for children with provision of special care in cooperation with Nordpark Ärztenetz GmbH. Over 40 different operations have already been performed as day surgery in this way (like hernia, appendix or tonsil operations for instance). In particular, laser tonsillotomy (partial reduction of the tonsils using laser) can be carried out on an outpatient basis as part of the scheme.
The advantages for you
You and your children benefit from several advantages:
- no unnecessary hospital stay
- shorter procedure times
- innovative surgical procedures (minimal invasive surgery, more gentle methods of anaesthesia)
- comprehensive, quality-assured care and aftercare
- If it is deemed necessary from a medical point of view that the child stay in hospital after all, there are no difficulties with this. BIG will cover the costs for one accompanying adult to stay overnight.
Easy to take advantage of this benefit
If your child is insured with BIG and under the age of 18, you can take advantage of this offer quite simply. Have your paediatrician or ear, nose and throat doctor issue a referral to one of the affiliate doctors in the Nordpark Ärztenetz scheme, who is to perform the surgery. After you have taken your child to this affiliate doctor and he/she has established the indication for surgery under the scheme, you sign the registration form. This is forwarded to us by the affiliate doctor’s office. There are no further obligations or costs for you that result from this.
Just find doctors licensed under this scheme
Better care for children and adolescents
The Nordpark Ärztenetz pools the resources and coordinates collaboration between specialists with their own practices and senior consultants and consultants from hospitals all over Germany. The scheme aims to improve the quality of surgical care for children and adolescents.
