About Poliklinika Barbel: a polyclinic with a day hospital for plastic and general surgery
Poliklinika Barbel is a private day hospital for plastic and general surgery, founded in 2000. It is in Maksimir, at Pavla Štoosa 28 in Zagreb.
The full name of the facility is Poliklinika za plastičnu, rekonstruktivnu i estetsku kirurgiju, opću kirurgiju, anesteziologiju, reanimatologiju i intenzivnu medicinu s liječenjem boli BARBEL; in short, Poliklinika Barbel.
What does it mean that Barbel is a day hospital?
A day hospital means that the examination, the procedure and the recovery all take place in the same facility — the patient does not go to one place for the examination, another for the operation and a third for the results.
Poliklinika Barbel has everything needed for this:
- four specialist consulting rooms
- two operating theatres
- a recovery unit, where patients can also stay overnight when the doctor judges it necessary and agrees this with them
- its own central sterilisation unit and central gas supply
- equipment for emergency interventions and resuscitation
- a full-time anaesthetist
- a cosmetology centre and a technical laboratory
The premises are being extended with a new floor for urology.
Its own sterilisation and central gas supply mean that the clinic does not depend on an outside service for what is used in every operation. A full-time anaesthetist means that your anaesthesia is given by the doctor who examined you before the procedure and knows your results, and who works in a permanent team with the surgeon and the nurses. The recovery unit means that after the procedure, when the doctor judges it necessary and agrees this with you, you spend the night at the clinic, in a room with a bed, a television and a bathroom, with a nurse beside you all night and a doctor on call.
→ What happens before, during and after anaesthesia?
What does the clinic do?
Poliklinika Barbel carries out procedures in plastic, aesthetic and general surgery and breast surgery. It also offers urology, with examinations, ultrasound diagnostics and surgical procedures.
The clinic also carries out procedures that correct or complete earlier operations — its own and those done elsewhere, including implant removal.
→ Problems after earlier surgery
Opening hours
Poliklinika Barbel is open Monday–Friday, 8:00–20:00; other times and weekends by arrangement. Operating days are Monday–Thursday, and Friday is an outpatient day by prior arrangement.
Frequently asked questions about Poliklinika Barbel
Where is Poliklinika Barbel? Poliklinika Barbel is in Maksimir, at Pavla Štoosa 28 in Zagreb.
Are the operation and the recovery done in the same place? Yes. Poliklinika Barbel has four specialist consulting rooms, two operating theatres and a recovery unit, so the examination, the procedure and the recovery all take place in the same facility.
Does the clinic have its own anaesthetist? At Poliklinika Barbel the anaesthetist works full time. The anaesthetist is Dr. Dražen Matleković, a specialist in anaesthesiology, resuscitation and intensive care.
Which specialties are practised at the clinic? Poliklinika Barbel carries out procedures in plastic, aesthetic and general surgery and breast surgery, as well as in urology.