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Martigny What is palliative care? Palliative care provides practical support for individuals suffering from incurable progressive chronic diseases, from diagnosis through to the end of their lives. This care provides relief from troublesome symptoms such as pain, digestive problems, nausea and breathing difficulties. Palliative care also provides relief from psychological suffering such as anxiety and depression. It also offers support in cases of isolation or of family conflicts. Organising palliative care requires…
Nuclear Medicine Nuclear medicine involves carrying out examinations and providing diagnostic and therapeutic surveys of the functional parts of the human body such as the organs or vessels using radioactive tracers. This medical speciality is distinct from other imaging techniques in that the images obtained are physiological (showing the way a system is working) rather than anatomical. Currently, this department works together with numerous other fields such as oncology, neurology, cardiology, nephrology, pneumology,…
Rehabilitation Rehabilitation involves restoring the patient to a good physical condition, as well as enabling him/her to recover his/her capacity to be independent. Rehabilitation medicine involves the medico-social, medico-surgical, psychosomatic and pedagogical fields, allowing the patient to recover function as close as possible to his/her original state preceding an accident, major surgery, a disability, a handicap or a chronic disease. Rehabilitation starts as soon as any lesions appear, and only ends once the patient…
Dietetics ospital dieticians belong to the Nursing and Medico-Technical Care Department and work transversally, upon request by other medical staff. They cooperate with the doctors, nurses, other care providers and with the Catering Department, in particular with the dietetic cooks. The main aim of hospital dietetics is to ensure that patients feed themselves or are fed. Due to their conditions and/or treatments, some patients do not eat very much, lose weight and therefore muscle mass, and suffer from undernutrition. This…
Urology Urology is the medico-surgical speciality devoted to the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of diseases, malformations and lesions of the organs of the urinary tract, both in women and in men. This speciality also includes treatment for disorders of the male reproductive system. Renal calculus, urinary incontinence, erectile dysfunction and cancers of the genito-urinary system are the main conditions that are treated in the field of urology. Organisation Sierre Sion Martigny Spitalzentrum Oberwallis (Visp) Sierre…
Visp Hospital Accident & Emergency Emergency medicine is the department of medicine that deals with the care and treatment of medical emergencies. In technical terms, it covers the entire rescue chain and is an interdisciplinary medical field in which all the specialized departments in hospitals are brought together. The emergency department is open 24 hours a day for mild and acute cases (children, adolescents and adults). Attendance and current situation Information Patient attendance is indicative only and may vary…
Internal Medicine Internal medicine treats patients suffering from medical afflictions which require extensive investigations and medical diagnosis. This speciality can be seen as being at the cross-over point between several other specialities and covers a wide range of afflictions; it is practised throughout the various sites of Valais Hospital. In 2011, the Internal Medicine Departments of Valais Hospital (Cantons of Valais romand and of Haut-Valais) registered just over 100,000 days of hospitalisation. The average length…
Intensive Care Medicine Valais Hospital has two intensive care units, one at the Sion site and the other at the Visp site. Each one is equipped according to the location as well as in respect of medical and surgical treatment. In cases of severe failure of vital organs such as the brain, the heart, the lungs, the kidneys, the intestine or the liver, patients are cared for in the intensive care department of Valais Hospital. There is a particularly high quota of highly specialised medical and nursing staff here, and the…