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Radiology Radiology is a medical speciality mainly aimed at providing support for diagnosis by means of imaging techniques. It is as varied as the devices and technologies that it uses: these range from scanners to MRI, and include, among others, ultrasound, angiography or echography. Radiology is known as a ‘support’ speciality, and caters to patients of all ages, coming from Accident & Emergency, from the various departments in the hospital, or sent by their doctor for a check-up or an outpatient intervention. In…
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…
Brig The date of your discharge and the treatment and/or therapy which you will have to follow subsequently will be defined together with a consultant according to the healing process. The Centre hospitalier du Haut-Valais will send your referring doctor a report about your stay in the hospital for his/her information. For practical reasons, we would be grateful if you would leave your room between 10:00 and 12:00. If you are only able to return to your home in the afternoon, you may have lunch in the Pometta restaurant.…
Haematology Haematology is the medical speciality devoted to the study of the blood. The Valais Hospital Haematology Department is based in the Central Institute, and its medical and technical teams handle blood diseases from the laboratory to the clinic. Its main aim is to provide diagnostic and clinical care for patients suffering from blood diseases in different fields. These include, specifically, general haematology (anaemia, anomalies of the various blood cells), cancers of the blood (leukaemia, lymphoma, multiple…
Geriatrics Geriatrics is the field of medicine devoted to the needs of elderly people. It covers the clinical, preventive and social aspects of the diseases suffered by elderly people, as well as their rehabilitation. This field of medicine provides interdisciplinary services which include the investigation and general and specific assessment of the somatic, functional, psychological and environmental problems faced by the patient. Beyond this assessment, geriatric care can take the form of various treatment programmes,…
Radiologie interventionnelle La radiologie interventionnelle est une spécialité de la radiologie qui propose une large gamme d’examens minimalement invasifs à but diagnostique ou thérapeutique guidés par imagerie. Ces examens, réalisés par des médecins radiologues avec l’assistance d’une équipe de Techniciens en Radiologie Médicale (TRM), permettent par exemple traiter des pathologies vasculaire et oncologique, d’effectuer un prélèvement (biopsies), d’injecter des médicaments de manière localisée (infiltrations) ou du…
Breast Clinic Sion Based in Sion for the Valais romand region, the Breast Clinic at Valais Hospital provides rapid and comprehensive care for any conditions affecting this organ. It works in close collaboration with the Breast Cancer Screening Centre and brings together all the specialities which are relevant to this field, such as oncology (cancerology), radiology, pathology, nuclear medicine, plastic surgery and psychiatry. Patients are cared for by a doctor and by specialist healthcare staff, in accordance with the…
Cardiac Surgery The cardiac surgery department of Valais Hospital is based in Sion. It provides state-of-the-art treatment in the field of adult cardiac and vascular surgery, and in particular uses the most recent minimally invasive surgery techniques (which allow for incisions measuring just a few centimetres, unlike traditional techniques requiring longer incisions). The field of adult cardiac surgery includes the following treatments in particular: Aorto-coronary bypass, including beating heart surgery, without using a…
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…
Une première expérience positive En 2023, une sortie au théâtre Le Spot marque le début d’une expérience enrichissante pour un groupe de jeunes de CAP’Ado. « Nous avons souhaité donner accès à la culture à des jeunes qui sont souvent déscolarisés », explique Alicia Penedo, infirmière en pédopsychiatrie. « Nous avons rapidement réalisé avec l’équipe de CAP’Ado que l’expression théâtrale était un outil intéressant pour créer un cadre sécurisant favorisant l’expression des jeunes » raconte Clément Kottelat, médiateur culturel…