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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…
Pour marquer la venue du nouvel accélérateur linéaire TrueBeam™ 4.0, installé en janvier dernier à l’hôpital de Sion, les spécialistes du Service de radio-oncologie convient le public et les professionnel·le·s à une soirée portes ouvertes le 6 juin 2024, de 17h30 à 20h30 . Ce dispositif de radiothérapie unique en Valais complète le plateau technique moderne et varié de l’hôpital de Sion et permet à chaque patient·e atteint·e d’un cancer de notre Canton de bénéficier du meilleur traitement selon les caractéristiques de sa…
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…
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,…
Department of Anaesthesiology of the Hospital of Sierre The Anaesthesiology Department of the Sierre Hospital is an integral part of the Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Department (SAR) of the Centre Hospitalier du Valais Romand (CHVR). The senior doctors work mainly at the Sierre and Sion sites, while the junior doctors spend periods at the three sites of Sierre, Martigny and Sion. The operating block in Sierre operates 3 operating rooms on weekdays and performs around 3,000 operations per year. On nights and weekends,…
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…
Radiographie La radiographie est une technique d’imagerie médicale non invasive et indolore aux rayons X (RX). La radiographie consiste en la réalisation d’une ou plusieurs images du corps, permettant de diagnostiquer l’origine d’un trouble de santé suite à un traumatisme, des douleurs articulaires, d’infections ou autres. Types d'interventions Tête (os du crâne, sinus, nez) Cou (tissus mous) Thorax (poumons, côtes, sternum, clavicules) Membres supérieurs (épaule, humérus, coude, avant-bras, poignet, main, tissus mous)…