We have been providing highly qualified anaesthesia services across Switzerland for decades. We place great importance on thoroughly informing you about procedures, potential risks, and processes. Therefore, we offer you detailed information about our anaesthesia services here.
Please feel free to contact us if you have any questions.
Regional Anaesthesia
Regional anaesthesia (partial anaesthesia) is different from local anaesthesia (localised numbing). In regional anaesthesia, the numbing is achieved by injecting an anaesthetic near a nerve or a network of nerves, reducing or eliminating pain sensation in the specific area of the body being operated on.
In children, pure regional anaesthesia is rarely used. For adolescents and adults, the mentioned procedures are possible depending on the operation, health condition, and ultimately the preference of the individual being treated.
In local anaesthesia, numbing is achieved by injecting a medication (local anaesthetic) directly into the area surrounding the surgical site.
Your Contribution to a Safe Procedure
- Fill out the health questionnaire completely and truthfully.
- Read our informational material thoroughly.
- Follow the instructions from the telephone pre-consultation.
- IMPORTANT: Adhere strictly to fasting times.
Frequently asked questions: Anaesthesia
Our teams consist of specially trained doctors and specialised nursing staff. Training to become a specialist in anaesthesiology takes at least five years after completing medical school. Further training to become an expert in anaesthesia care takes at least two years after obtaining a diploma in nursing. In addition to their work in anaesthesia, anaesthetists often also work in emergency wards and intensive care units or in pain medicine.
Before the actual procedure, a doctor from the anaesthesia team will assess your general condition. This means that your state of health, your lifestyle and the severity of the procedure are assessed in order to select the right type of anaesthesia. Our teams will take as much time as necessary to go through any unanswered questions with you and explain the procedure in detail. It is important that patients tell us what worries them, what frightens them and, above all, what they do not understand. This is the only way we can work with you to help you build up the necessary confidence in our experts and the forthcoming anaesthetic.
Our anaesthesia teams leave nothing to chance. Every effort is made to adhere to the time and duration of the operation as strictly as possible. Various monitoring devices, which are attached to the body before anaesthesia is induced, continuously track circulation, breathing, depth of sleep and other bodily functions. This ensures that even in the unlikely event of abnormal changes, the appropriate countermeasures can be initiated immediately.
In recovery rooms patients are closely observed and monitored by specially trained nursing staff after surgery in order to initiate corrections to hydration, breathing and circulation and to treat pain and restlessness. In the case of minor or shorter procedures, this phase may take place in outpatient day wards, or in the intensive care unit if a very high level of monitoring is required or the patient is in a critical condition.
In principle, all operations that do not require prolonged post-operative monitoring or further care in hospital can be performed on an outpatient basis.
Longer operations, operations within the thorax or operations where major blood loss is to be expected require prolonged monitoring after the operation. In order to ensure complete monitoring of the patient, such operations should not be performed on an outpatient basis.
Unless you have received instructions to the contrary, you must adhere to the fasting times. In concrete terms, this means that you can drink clear liquids (water, tea, coffee - even sweetened) up to 2 hours before the operation. You can still eat solid food up to 6 hours before the operation.
Your own medication must be taken as usual before the operation. Exceptions only apply if this has been discussed and planned with you in advance (e.g. medication to thin the blood).
It is best to leave removable jewellery at home. The same applies to contact lenses and make-up.
Wear comfortable, practical and not too tight clothing.
Check your entry time and arrive on time.
You have the right to adequate pain management since our recovery phase begins immediately after the procedure. If you experience severe pain, speak to the medical staff immediately.