About ICATME

30 years of excellence and innovation dedicated to our patients’ health.

More than a medical centre

Our vision

ICATME aims to improve our patients’ quality of life through the application and development of new surgical techniques, promoting research and teaching to strengthen our excellence and be a leading centre nationally and internationally.

Our mission

We are a leading medical centre in traumatology, orthopaedic surgery and sports medicine, with a professional history dating back to 1992. We work to improve our patients’ health and well-being through a highly specialised team committed to continuous improvement and ongoing innovation.

Our
values

30 years of experience

Over the years, we have carried out an average of 550 outpatient consultations a day, approximately 128,914 outpatient consultations a year, together with 5,218 operations and 320 arthroscopic procedures a year.

We perform more than 600 primary prosthetic implants annually (hip, knee, shoulder and other joints), more than 200 prosthetic revisions and more than 2,000 bone and tendon transplants, among other procedures. In 2017, we received the award for the best traumatology service for 2015–2016 according to the Hospital Excellence Index.

ICATME welcomes patients from across Spain and a high proportion from abroad: Italy, France, Portugal, Germany, England, Switzerland, Arab countries, Latin America and the United States, the latter particularly for limb-lengthening surgery.

Our clinical work has also included:

Responsibility during the 1990s for Spanish riders in the motorcycle world championship, providing direct assistance at the circuits.
Responsibility within our specialty at the Barcelona ’92 Olympic Games.
Medical responsibility for the Special Olympics organisation for athletes with disabilities.
Fifteen years of responsibility for the Mutualidad General Deportiva, covering federated athletes across all sports throughout Catalonia.
Medical responsibility for numerous sporting competitions.
Assistance to hospitals in what was known as the Third World, on missions in Ecuador, Argentina, Paraguay and several African countries, as well as free surgical treatment for people without financial resources.

Many patients come to us for revision of hip, knee and other joint prostheses. Access to the Bone Transplant Bank helps with these sometimes complex operations.