Doctor responsible for the unit:
Pr Walid HABRE
walid.habre@hcuge.ch
- Anesthesia, brain development and cognitive disorders (FR)
- Loco-regional anesthesia (FR)
- Factual medicine (FR)
- Monitoring and new technologies (FR)
- Pharmacology of anesthetic agents (FR)
- Pathophysiology and peri-operative cardiopulmonary complications (FR)
- Hepatic pathophysiology and transplantation (FR)
- Quality and safety (FR)
- Simulation and medical education (FR)
- ENT, neurosurgery, maxillofacial and plastic surgery (FR)
The division also participates in the following projects:
Outpatient anesthesia: - Communication and anesthesia (patient information, consent)
- Outpatient postoperative analgesia
- Digestive and urological anesthesia:
- Anesthesia and laparoscopy
- Analgesia by continuous instillation of local anesthetics through a catheter placed close to the abdominal wall
- Epidemiology: impact of the aging population
- Gyneco-obstretrical anesthesiology:
- Clinical research in the field of pre-eclampsia
- Evaluation of different video-laryngoscopes for difficult intubation
- Orthopedic anesthesia:
- Research in the field of interpeduncular and perimedullary locoregional anesthesia as well as postoperative analgesia
- Development of ultrasound imaging for shallow and deep peripheral nerve blocks
- Pediatric anesthesiology:
- Anesthesia and bronchial hyper responsiveness
- Anesthesia and memory
- Fluid and electrolyte replenishment
- Post-interventional and outside of theater anesthesiology:
- Intra and post-interventional comfort ("well-being" project, "hypnosis" project)
- Traumatic brain injury (PEBITA national project)
- Monitoring development of peri-operative opioids (SNF project with ETH Zurich)
- Quality improvement project in the post-interventional monitoring room
- Emergency:
- Erythromycin and gastric emptying in patients scheduled for general anesthesia in emergency. Published 17/06/2015, Jama Surgery online: http://archsurg.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=2322832
These projects are published in scientific papers (FR).