Dr. Kastner, Salzburg – Preventive medical check-up:

The health check is a free preventive program offered by social insurance companies!

With the health check, risk factors and illnesses can be identified at an early stage and successfully prevented or treated.

The focus is on

Early detection of risk factors for cardiovascular diseases
Early detection of risk factors for metabolic diseases
Early detection of cancer

Who is eligible?

All persons over the age of 18 who are resident in Austria can take advantage of the preventive medical check-up once a year free of charge.

Persons without health insurance can also take advantage of the preventive medical check-up if they obtain a substitute health insurance certificate for the check-up from the regional health insurance fund responsible for their place of residence.

What is being examined?

Detailed anamnesis (questioning about health status and lifestyle)
Clinical examination of the body
blood pressure measurement
Calculation and body mass index
Blood test (total cholesterol/HDL cholesterol/ratio, triglycerides,
blood sugar, liver value gamma-GT, for women additionally a blood count, for men over 50 years of age additionally prostate PSA)
Urinalysis
Examination of the stool for blood (hemoccult, for women and men over the age of 50)

Extended health examination:

On request, we offer an extension of the health examination:

this additionally includes € 79,-:

extended blood test (additionally: differential blood count regardless of gender, blood sedimentation, uric acid, additional liver values
GOT/AST and GPT/ALT, bilirubin, thyroid, kidney, PSA in men regardless of age)
Examination of stool for blood regardless of age
Electrocardiography (ECG)
Pulmonary function test (spirometry)

Further examinations such as HIV tests can be carried out on request (subject to a charge).

Procedure

You need 2 appointments:

1st appointment: Blood collection

Blood samples are taken every Monday, Thursday and Friday from 08:00.
Please arrive sober (do not eat or drink anything after midnight)
If you are dizzy or prone to collapse, we can take the blood sample while you are lying down

2nd appointment: Consultation appointment

Performance of all further examinations (urine, stool, blood pressure measurement,…) and discussion of findings