About us
​Paediatrics include children from birth through puberty, until about 15 years of age. The speciality is thus defined on the basis of age and not on the basis of treatment of certain organs or diseases. The development is generally moving towards involving the period of youth until age 20 years, which has already been the case within several specialist areas. The paediatric departments treat children within virtually all highly specialised specialist areas. The department receives patients from all of Denmark, but mainly from the Capital Region of Denmark and the Region of Zealand.

Children constantly grow and develop and therefore they need to know about the varying opportunities for empathy and understanding of their diseases and treatment and the significance of these aspects depending on their age and stage of development.

This means that the department must have specially trained staff at all levels for treatment and care of children. This is the case for very complex patient courses that pose great demands on all employees. The starting point is the family centre’s treatment and care in that parents are significantly involved in the decisions about the treatment of their children.

Because of the complexity of the treatments, patient safety work in the paediatric departments is given high priority. Currently, work is done with health professional contact persons, communication in the clinical work and patient identification in connection with medicine administration.

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Management

 Eva Mosfeldt Jeppesen
Consultant
Head of Department
Section: 40​72
Tel: +45 3545 4305 
Email ​

Marianne Madsen
Head Nurse
Section: 4073
Tel: +45 3545 9562​
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Contact

 ​Department of Paediatrics and Adolescent Medicine
Section 4072

Entrance 4, 7th floor
Juliane Maries Vej 8
DK-2100 København OE
Denmark

Tel: +45 3545 44 67
​Email: paediatri.rigshospitalet@regionh​

Research

 News from Rigshospitalet

Associate professor Faisal Mohammad Amin will investigate and provide novel data on functional features of the migraine brain

This is to reveal migraine-specific biomarkers. The project will also reveal if migraine-specific drugs modulate brain dysfunction.

Australian professor honoured after long collaboration

This year, the international KFJ Award goes to Professor Mark Febbraio, who has been working with Copenhagen University Hospital - Rigshospitalet on research into the effect of physical activity on the immune system for more than two decades.

Gene therapy tested against muscular dystrophy

​The first patient with a specific type of muscular dystrophy has been treated using gene therapy. It is hoped the therapy will halt the disease. ​

Blood from donors of the same sex increases survival rates

Survival rates increase if patients undergoing a blood transfusion receive blood from a donor of the same sex, according to sensational new research from Rigshospitalet.

Patients with blood poisoning do not have to take so much fluid

Halving fluids to treat intensive-care patients with blood poisoning causes neither higher mortality nor more serious side effects according to a new trial. ​

Cornerstone laid for Mary Elizabeth’s Hospital

Her Royal Highness Crown Princess Mary has laid the cornerstone for Rigshospitalet's new hospital for children, teens, expecting mothers and their families. Mary Elizabeth’s Hospital - Rigshospitalet for Children, Teens and Expecting Families will be a pioneering hospital in which life abounds on the patients’ terms.

New brain-haemorrhage treatment tested on patients for the first time

Researchers from Rigshospitalet have launched first-in-human trials of a groundbreaking new treatment principle for brain haemorrhages. The professor behind the trials has been working on this breakthrough for 25 years, and he is now about to embark on the second treatment breakthrough in his career. ​​​

Good results with surgery for malignant pleural mesothelioma

All the malignant pleural mesothelioma operations in Denmark are performed by just a small group of experts. This has led to large improvements in the survival rate for a disease that was untreatable 20 years ago.​

Alzheimer’s Disease: The Identification of 75 Genetic Risk Factors Brings New Insights

Researchers in Europe, the US and Australia have identified 75 regions of the genome that are associated with Alzheimer's disease. Forty-two of these regions are novel, meaning that they have never before been implicated in the disease.​​

Paracetamol can impair men’s ability to make women pregnant

New research has disconcerting news: Large quantities of paracetamol seem to affect the function of sperm cells and possibly men’s ability to make women pregnant.​