World Allergy Academy “Center of Excellence”

The Ramón y Cajal University Hospital, a public center in the Community of Madrid, has been distinguished as Center of Excellence for the World Allergy Academy (World Allergy Organization – WAO)an entity which brings together 115 national and regional companies with the objective of developing quality scientific content and providing high-level educational resources. Recognition is given for the work and level of complexity of their work. Severe Asthma Unit.

This Madrid public hospital thus becomes one of the rare choices in the world to hold this quality distinction alongside hospitals. Clinic and Vall d’Hebron in Barcelonathe University Clinic of Navarre, the Regional Hospital of Málaga and the Hospital Dr Balmis from Alicante.

The centre’s multidisciplinary severe asthma unit is also accredited as a high complexity severe asthma unit, the highest level of excellence awarded by the Spanish Society of Pneumology and Thoracic Surgery (SEPAR)since 2018, and on June 30, it obtained reaccreditation as a Unit of Excellence for Severe Asthma, the highest level granted by the Spanish Society of Allergology and Clinical Immunology -SEAIC-, being one of the rare severe asthma units to benefit from dual SEAIC and SEPAR accreditation. in Spain

Multidisciplinary commission

The Multidisciplinary Commission on Severe Asthma of the Ramón y Cajal Hospital is made up of the services of Allergology, Hospital Pharmacy, Immunology, Pneumology, Otorhinolaryngology, Pediatrics, Psychiatry and Clinical Psychology of the center, meeting the specific needs of patients (children and adults) who present with chronic symptoms of severe asthma, who require a rigorous, systematic and individualized assessment. The development and use of specific biological drugs requires a structured and multidisciplinary approach to patients.

This integrated care approach aims for excellence in the diagnosis, treatment and monitoring of patients suffering from severe asthma, from childhood to adulthood. The severe asthma unit It has a character of care, as well as teaching with the residents of the different specialties assigned to it and with the holding of clinical sessions, but it also has a very important research aspect, seeking the optimization and humanization of care processes carried out. .

Regarding research, the Severe Asthma Unit of Ramón y Cajal University Hospital recently published an article describing the ASfarMA project, whose objective is the optimization of care for patients suffering from severe asthma, -the publication had their active participation- in the prestigious European Journal of Hospital Pharmacy.