Faculty of Medicine

University Clinics Inselspital

Department of Anaesthesiology and Pain Medicine

Inselspital Bern

The Department of Anaesthesiology and Pain Medicine aims to define the best practices for personalized perioperative patient care, with basic science as a foundation and translational medicine as the vision for the future.

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Profile

  • Advanced Airway Management
  • Anaesthetic Pharmacology
  • Anaesthetic Management for Enhanced Recovery after Major Surgery
  • Ambulatory Anaesthesia
  • Cardiovascular Anaesthesiology
  • Clinical and Molecular Pain Research
  • Preclinical Emergency Medicine
  • Genetics, Molecular Biology and Outcomes Research
  • Monitoring of Anaesthesia Depth
  • Organ Protection
  • Perioperative Care and Safety in Major Surgery
  • Regional Anaesthesia Techniques
  • Respiratory System and Sleep Assessment
  • Transfusion an Haemostasi

Grants

  • The Airway Management group of PD Dr. Thomas Riva accumulated in 2023 125kCHF for their research projects from various funding sources (Foundation for Research in Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine/Bern, The Government of Italy, the Burgergemeinde, the Gustav and Ruth Jakob Foundation and the European Society of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine)
  • The research group of Perioperative Care in Major Surgery of Prof. Dr. Patrick Wüthrich acquired a total of 51kCHF (Foundation for Research in Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine/Bern, preparatory grant for the application of an IICT SNF grant, the Burgergemeinde)