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Haut-Valais General Surgery Visp The Surgical Clinic at the Upper Valais Hospital Centre comprises the General Surgery & Visceral Surgery Department, the Traumatology Department, the ENT Department and the Urology Department. In addition to traumatology of the musculoskeletal system, the range of services offered by the surgical clinic includes a broad spectrum of general surgery, visceral surgery (surgery of the internal organs), vascular surgery and thoracic surgery. In visceral surgery and general surgery in…
Research IMPROVE-IT (international study into the long-term effect of lipid lowering medicines following an acute coronary syndrome) INSIGHT (register of patients receiving a Reveal device aimed at continuously recording the ECG during a syncope of indeterminate origin) Falls in ELDERLY (study of the occurrence of falls in patients requiring the insertion of a pacemaker for atrial disease) BRAVO (register tracking patients who have undergone the occlusion of a permeable foramen ovale) RESOLUTE (register tracking patients…
Cardiovascular Outpatient Rehabilitation Centre A Centre at the Heart of Your Existence The cardiovascular rehabilitation outpatient centre offers a rehabilitation programme which fulfils the quality requirements defined by the Swiss Working Group for Cardiovascular Rehabilitation (‘groupe suisse de travail pour la réadaptation cardiovasculaire’, G.S.R.C.). It opened on 20 April 2009, as a result of the united efforts of the Cardiology Department of the CHVR and of the Clinique Romande de Réadaptation (CRR) to restructure…
General Surgery and Visceral Surgery at Sion Hospital General surgery is the medical speciality which deals with diagnosing and treating a wide range of conditions. It can cover fields such as emergency surgery, traumatology, and the treatment of common conditions such as calculus of the urinary bladder, hernias or appendicitis, but also more specialised fields, such as visceral, vascular or thoracic surgery. This speciality acts as a ‘turntable’ between numerous other surgical activities in the hospital, involving…
Protocols Préparation rénale avant injection de produit de contraste (78 KB) Demande d'endoscopies, gastroentérologie, pneumologie, cardiologie, eto (73 KB) Auftrag für ergänzende angiologische Untersuchungen (42 KB)
Pain Management at Brig Hospital Pain is one of the most frequent reasons for consulting a family doctor or going to Accident & Emergency. Depending on their duration, pains are classified as acute (following wounds or operations) or chronic (pains that last over time). Pain is not solely dependent on physical factors: psychological factors also play an important role in the perception of and resistance to pain. We all perceive it differently, depending on our physical and psychosocial characteristics. Pains can have…
Pre-Operative Evaluation Unit (Unité d'Évaluation Préopératoire, UEP) Concept Anaesthesiological Aspects Staff Locations Concept Anaesthesiological Aspects Staff Locations The UEP is governed by an overall concept which allows us, in compliance with the recommendations of the Central Swiss Associations for Surgery and Anaesthesiology, to assess a patient both from an anaesthesiological and surgical perspective, some time before the intervention, as well as to complete his/her administrative file and carry out any necessary…
Assistant Doctors and Senior Registrars The SAR is categorised as A1 by the ISFM, which means that a maximum of 3 1/2 years of specific training is recognised. The SAR is part of the COMASUL Latin Commission, which reviews all candidates eligible for anaesthesiology training in French-speaking Switzerland and Ticino. If the candidate is accepted, COMASUL assists him or her until he or she obtains his or her FMH title, and ensures an efficient distribution of assistants between the university and peripheral hospitals in…
The Anaesthesiology and Resuscitation Department Nursing Team The nursing team of the Anaesthesiology and Resuscitation Department of the CHVR is represented on the Sion, Sierre and Martigny sites. It consists of one departmental matron, three team matrons, specialist anaesthetic nurses, nurses undergoing training in anaesthetics, specialist recovery room nurses, anaesthetic assistants, and specialist analgesic nurses: this comes to a total of around 55 full time positions covering an extremely wide range of activities.…