The Department of Neurorehabilitation Sciences

Department

Il Department of Rehabilitation, directed by Dr. Luigi Pisani, is composed of 148 beds (SSN and insolvent), divided as follows:

• Ordinary hospitalization for Neurological Specialist Rehabilitation (110 beds)
• Ordinary hospitalization for specialized cardio-respiratory rehabilitation (15 beds)
• Ordinary hospitalization for Orthopedic Specialist Rehabilitation (11 beds)
• Day Hospital for Neurological Rehabilitation (12 beds)

The layout of the Department of Neurorehabilitation Sciences provides for a departmental organization currently composed of:

• aSpecialized Rehabilitation Operational Unit (cod. 56);
• aNeurorehabilitation Unit (code 75), equipped with 10 beds dedicated to high-intensity specialist hospitalisation for patients with outcomes of severe acquired brain injury (GAI).
• The Department also specializes in rehabilitation activities for patients with spinal cord injuries and head trauma (code 28 – Spinal Unit), whose formal establishment as a UO is currently awaiting validation.

Visiting Hours

Visits by relatives to patients are permitted during the following times:

From Monday to Saturday
17:00 am - 20:00 am

Sunday and Holidays
14:30 am - 20:00 am

Specialist Rehabilitation

Includes the activities of intensive rehabilitation in hospitalisation aimed at the recovery of significant disabilities, modifiable, which require a high medical-specialist diagnostic effort with a rehabilitative and therapeutic approach including multidisciplinary and multi-professional interventions intense (approximately 3 hours per day of specific treatment) and which involve a high level of medical and nursing care or the need to use technologically advanced equipment.

Patients eligible for specialist rehabilitation are subjects affected by disabilities resulting from pathologies for which there are conditions of intrinsic rehabilitative modifiability in the presence of clinical instability, although not of a critical nature, which requires a 24-hour medical and nursing monitoring.

The rehabilitation action uses specific skills that guarantee:

• clinical assessment and monitoring
• global patient care with the involvement of the multi-professional team
• the execution of functional and instrumental assessments aimed at drafting of a project and a personalized rehabilitation program
• la implementation of the therapeutic-rehabilitative project

Individual Rehabilitation Projects (PRI)

THErehabilitation team, coordinated by the Head, is composed of Medical Specialists in:

• Physiatry, Neurology, Infectology, Cardiology, Pulmonology and Internal Medicine
• Physiotherapists
• Other healthcare professionals employed in diagnostic and therapeutic-assistance services

I Individual Rehabilitation Projects are conducted according to a multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary approach, placing particular emphasis on the integration of the various interventions: fromdiagnostic framework to the subsequent identification of the specific needs, object of the rehabilitation intervention, until the definition of the individual rehabilitation programs aimed at recovering residual skills and reintegrating into social life.

Il individual rehabilitation program, placed within the Individual Rehabilitation Project, defines the specific areas of intervention, the immediate and short-term objectives, the operators involved, the times, the methods of delivery and their verification.

Ordinary Hospitalization

In line with the Regional legislation on the “Reorganization of the Rehabilitation Network” of December 2004 and the Ministerial Guidelines of February 2011, the Operating Unit welcomes in Ordinary Hospitalization mainly patients transferred directly from hospital structures (in particular from the Operating Units of Neurology, Neurosurgery, Intensive Care, Medicine and Orthopedics) and a minority of patients reported by General practitioners who require an intensive rehabilitation program for the following pathologies in the post-acute phase:

• central nervous vascular lesions
• severe disabilities from spinal cord injury
• neuro-degenerative diseases
• demyelinating diseases (Multiple Sclerosis)
• neurosurgical post-operative care
• extrapyramidal diseases
• peripheral nerve injuries
• vegetative states
• traumatic injuries to the motor system
• degenerative osteoarticular diseases with severe disabilities
• after-effects of ischemic heart disease (bypass, angioplasty, myocardial infarction)
• after-effects of valve replacement
• heart failure

Day hospital

Il Rehabilitation Day Hospital It consists of scheduled hospitalisation cycles, each lasting less than a day, with the provision of services multi-professional e multi-specialist, which require a medical and nursing supervision continued throughout the day.
They belong to the Rehabilitation Day Hospital those patients in whom the functional deficit induces a partial disability as a direct consequence of the acute pathological event, or as a continuation of a re-education program already in progress.