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Monday - Friday, 8.00 - 12.00 and 13.00 - 16.00
Tel: +41 61 265 72 54
anaesthesie@usb.ch

The anesthesia department provides its services around the clock (365 x 24h). Surgical interventions are performed in 3 different operating theaters with 24 operating rooms. Our activities also include emergency interventions in the shock room and planned interventions outside the actual operating theaters. Our elective services are primarily focused on the following specialist areas: Breast surgery, vascular surgery, gynecology, obstetrics, ENT, heart surgery, cardiology, maxillofacial surgery, lung surgery, neurosurgery, orthopaedics and traumatology, plastic and hand surgery, urology, visceral surgery and spinal surgery.

As a monitoring and treatment unit, the recovery room offers 24-hour operation for the immediate aftercare of patients following an operation.

The Acute Pain Service is the pain service responsible for the 24-hour care of patients for whom conventional post-operative pain therapy is inadequate. As a rule, they receive invasive continuous pain therapy or the option of self-administered pain medication. Further information: Painmedicine

Our patients' opinions are important to us. That is why we have been asking many patients for years what was good at our clinic and where we can improve. This time-consuming quality assurance process is carried out by specially trained staff. A Critical Incident Reporting System (CIRS) developed by us helps us to continuously improve the safety of our services.

A team of doctors from various disciplines and a nursing team specially trained for IMC care for patients around the clock. The IMC has 20 beds. Each patient bed is equipped with a monitor to closely monitor the heart rhythm, blood pressure and breathing and to treat them if necessary. Respiratory therapy equipment is also available; any kidney washing (dialysis) can be carried out directly on the ward.

In addition to all the technology in cutting-edge medicine, the patient as a person is at the center of our thoughts and actions. Relatives can enquire about the patient's condition by telephone at any time.
Visiting hours are usually daily from 12.00-15.00 and from 17.15-20.00. Exceptions are possible after consultation with the responsible nursing specialist. Only two visitors can visit a patient at the same time. Visits by children under the age of twelve are only possible after consultation with the IMC team.

Visitors must register by telephone in the waiting area before entering the ward and will be collected afterwards.

24h-Tel.: +41 61 265 74 40
Fax: +41 61 265 74 44
Sekretariat-IMC@usb.ch

We treat patients who are affected by acute or chronic pain. The aim of our pain therapy specialists is to assess and treat patients as holistically as possible in their current life situation. The assessment and treatment is always based on a psychosomatic understanding of the illness. Whenever appropriate, this is done in conjunction with other disciplines. For example, we are an integral part of the pain consultation for children and adolescents with chronic pain.

The outpatient consultation is open to all patients affected by pain. Another important task for our therapists is the care of patients suffering from acute pain after operations. In addition to the use of medication and psychological support, we also consider the use of minimally invasive, interventional pain management methods. This involves the use of so-called pain catheters. Ideally, such a pain catheter provides absolute freedom from pain. In addition, this often means that systemic pain therapy (tablets, injections) is no longer absolutely necessary, which is why there are no corresponding side effects.

For cancer patients with severe tumor pain, drug or interventional minimally invasive therapy should be considered. Especially for patients in the palliative phase, pain therapy can contribute to an impressive improvement in the situation for the patient, but also for relatives and caregivers. Such measures can enable longer care at home and be an important element in fulfilling the patient's wish to be able to die at home.

The acute pain service is the pain service responsible for the round-the-clock care of inpatients for whom conventional post-operative pain therapy is inadequate. As a rule, these patients receive invasive continuous pain therapy or the option of self-referral of pain medication.

We also offer a mobile pain service for palliative patients and patients with severely restricted mobility. We provide advice in difficult and complex pain situations and also carry out home visits in Basel-Stadt if required. Our service is very comprehensive and covers a broad spectrum of pain therapy for oncology patients. This service is made possible in cooperation with the Onkospitex of Spitex Basel.