Clinical profile

Our wards

At the Paulinenkrankenhaus, we organise nursing care in teams, both for the management and on the wards. Our established standards serve as our guide for quality-focussed work, but at the same time we also need flexibility to handle demands which sometimes change rapidly.

Nowadays, nursing care must be planned to reconcile our clinical specialisation, the expectations of patients and family members, limited resources and complex legal requirements.

But it is not only duties that matter to us. We believe it is important to structure our working environment so that we can practise our profession with joy. This lies in our own hands, even though the circumstances are not simple. We face this challenge together.

The intensive care unit – intensive in every respect

We ensure that our patients’ vital signs are stable immediately after their operations. To achieve this, we rely on clinically well-founded standards and providing an individual induction for every new employee. We take over when lives are on the line. We are able to care for a maximum of 21 intensive care patients.

We have, and need, a large number of committed and specialised staff to do this.

Phone: +49 (0)30 30008-140

Ward P1 – a clean bill of health

Out team cares for patients who have had heart surgery and require regular dialysis (cleaning their blood) due to additional diseases. We can provide this in several different rooms on our ward.

We are a well-coordinated team of experienced colleagues.

Phone: +49 (0)30 30008-351

Ward P2 – the lifeline, part 1

Sometimes the heart literally stops functioning properly, and then only a transplant will help. We provide professional care for patients who are waiting for a transplant and for those who have already undergone this major surgery. The close monitoring and the highly effective drugs we use here require the utmost care in our work.

Our motto is: Routines are good, but precision is better.

Phone: +49 (0)30 30008-352

Ward P3 – the first steps

After their heart surgery and a stay in the intensive care unit, many patients take their first steps again here on Ward P3. We are needed when patients have to get back on their own two feet and gradually learn to care for themselves again. The road to recovery does not always run straight, and patients have to cope with setbacks. All the more reason why we are overjoyed at every success.

The physiotherapists and our nursing assistants support us in this demanding task, for which we have an increased staffing ratio.

Phone: +49 (0)30 30008-353

Ward P4 – the lifeline, part 2

A further treatment option for patients whose cardiac output is severely limited is a mechanical circulatory support system, known as an artificial heart. These patients are in the best of hands on the fourth floor of the Paulinenkrankenhaus. Experienced doctors and nursing staff monitor the vital signs, blood coagulation values, and of course the technology. There as many different types of artificial heart as there are makes of German cars.

But there is only one Ward P4!

Phone: +49 (0)30 30008-354

Ward P5 – putting heart and soul into our work

On the ward with the nicest view, we care for the patients for whom things are not going so smoothly: complications, lengthy progressions, setbacks to their recovery. Which makes us all the happier when patients complete their stays and we can discharge them to rehabilitation or allow them to go home. Some of them still write to us a long time afterwards.

Phone: +49 (0)30 30008-355

Private consultations with Chief Physician

Dr. Knierim is an expert for heart disease. He completed his training as an internist and cardiologist in Berlin and Potsdam. Before taking over as chief physician of the Paulinenkrankenhaus in January 2022, he worked as senior consultant at the German Heart Center Berlin. He specialises in the treatment of patients before and after cardiosurgical procedures, the treatment of patients with heart valve disease and the treatment of patients with heart failure. Dr. Knierim is a nationally and internationally recognised expert for the ultrasound examination of the heart (echocardiography) and has published numerous articles on this subject.

Together with his team, he offers private patients cardiological support and diagnostic services as well as all common internal examinations, including gastroscopy and colonoscopy.

Our outpatient examinations at a glance:

• Sonography
• Echocardiography
• Resting ECG
• Stress ECG
• Ambulatory ECG and ambulatory blood pressure measurement
• Lung function
• Endoscopic examination using gastroscopy and colonoscopy

Computerised tomography

• Appointment necessary
• An appointment is urgently required in the event of restricted kidney function
• Patients suffering from diabetes mellitus should stop taking Metformin at least one day beforehand

Magnetic resonance imaging

• Appointment strictly necessary
• Please let us know beforehand if you have metallic implants

Further services available at the Paulinenkrankenhaus healthcare centre

The Paulinenkrankenhaus is progressively developing into a healthcare centre in the Berlin Westend district.
The following doctors also have private practices at the centre:

• Joint practice of Carsten Petersen (internal medicine) and Dr. Roland Krasser
• Adalbert Rebeschke (specialist in internal medicine / angiology)
• Joint radiological practice “ihre-Radiologen.de”