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Operating suite The hospitals of the French-speaking Valais The operating suite is the structure accommodating all the operating theatres, a recovery room, a location for equipment storage, management offices and training rooms. As a veritable hub for the day-to-day management of patients undergoing a scheduled or emergency surgical intervention, the operating suite is a location that supports a very wide range of activities. It occupies a central location in a hospital due to its continual interactions with the various…
La recherche clinique et l'innovation sont indissociables et jouent un rôle primordial dans le progrès des pratiques et des technologies médicales. À ce titre, l'intelligence artificielle en pratique clinique a été mise en lumière par le Dr Abderrahmane Hedjoudje, médecin adjoint, Service d’imagerie diagnostique et interventionnelle, Centre Hospitalier du Valais Romand et par Cédric Villani, mathématicien et homme politique français. La master class qui a succédé à la conférence a permis de réunir de nombreux acteurs de la…
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…
Organ and Tissue Donation While everything is always done to save and maintain life, it is unfortunately unavoidable that some patients do not survive. The assessment of brain death must be made by a doctor who is not involved in the transplant. This usually happens within the framework of intensive care hospitalisation. Once this diagnosis has been established in accordance with very strict criteria, organ donation can be considered. In Switzerland, every individual is free to decide whether or not to be a donor and to…
Your admission Please find below some useful information which will help you prepare for your admission to the hospital. our admission will be organised in cooperation with your doctor, and you will be asked to come to the hospital admissions desk at the agreed time. Following your registration, you can go to the department concerned and introduce yourself to the healthcare staff. You will then be taken to your room. In order to help us to admit you, Valais Hospital would be grateful if you could prepare certain documents…
Le parking couvert, qui se situera entre l’avenue du Grand-Champsec et l’autoroute, permettra le stationnement de 1’138 véhicules. « Cette construction répondra au besoin de places du parc à moyen terme du “Pôle santé” qui réunira sur un site unique l’Hôpital du Valais, la Clinique romande de réadaptation de la Suva et la HES-SO Valais-Wallis (Santé). Un accès piétonnier et deux-roues complètera à l’horizon 2020 cette infrastructure afin de relier le parking des Echutes au site hospitalier de Sion », souligne le prof. Eric…
Speech Therapy Speech Therapy is the speciality which treats conditions affecting swallowing, speech, the voice, language and communication, whatever they are caused by, in children, adults, and elderly people. At Valais Hospital, speech therapists provide services and cooperate with numerous departments (ENT and cervico-facial surgery, neurology, neurosurgery, palliative care, acute and intensive care, geriatrics, medicine, pneumology, cardiac surgery). Establishing a preliminary assessment allows staff to evaluate the…
Ma réadaptation oncologique idéale Mieux orienter et accompagner les patient.e.s pendant et après un cancer PROGRAMME DU 4 FÉVRIER 2025 Village éphémère, hall d’entrée de l’hôpital de Sion Visite libre De 10h00 à 18h00, venez échanger autour de la maladie et de l’accompagnement des personnes atteintes du cancer. Découvrez 14 stands animés par : Les spécialistes de l’équipe interdisciplinaire du Centre Hospitalier du Valais Romand (avec ses services d’oncologie, radio-oncologie, soins palliatifs, nutrition et diététique,…
Gastroenterology Gastroenterology is the medical speciality concerned with the diagnosis and treatment of all diseases of the digestive system, which includes not only organs such as the oesophagus, the stomach, the small intestine, the large intestine, the rectum and the anus, but also digestive glands such as the liver, the bile ducts and the pancreas. Patients suffering from digestive afflictions can be treated by Valais Hospital gastroenterologists on the Sion, Sierre and Martigny sites for the Valais romand region and…
Angiology Vascular medicine, also known as ‘angiology’, is the medical speciality which deals with arterial, venous and lymphatic diseases affecting the human body as a whole. Angiology allows for enhanced clinical diagnosis thanks to non-invasive functional vascular explorations (without any breaking of tissue). Its aim is to confirm cases of arterial and/or venous impairment. It represents part of a diagnostic and therapeutic medical approach, and also plays a role in the preventive care and monitoring of patients who are…