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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…
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…
Sion Hospital Paediatric Department The paediatric department of Valais Hospital is located in Sion. It cares for children from birth through to the end of their 16th year, and in some cases even through to their 18th year. Premature babies are cared for when they have reached an age of 32 weeks and a weight of 1250 grams. The Paediatric Department is structured into three divisions: The Paediatric Department is structured into three divisions: A neonatology division A division for outpatient treatment, emergency…
Training Option Training Option The Cardiology Department in Valais Hospital is accredited by the Federation of Swiss Doctors (‘Fédération des Médecins Suisses’, FMH) to provide training as a cardiology specialist for a duration of 2 years (B1 category). As a rule, the Cardiology Department at Valais Hospital employs doctors training to become cardiology specialists within the framework of a general training course provided in a university hospital. Thus, the year spent in Sion can be credited as an ‘external’ year as is…
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…
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…
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…