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In the Clinic for Anesthesiology, Intensive Medicine and Pain Therapy, over 19 000 anaesthetic procedures are conducted each year. Before an operation in our hospital, you will see a doctor from our department who will thoroughly discuss the anaesthesia procedure with you to find the one best suited to you. Apart from questions regarding previous illnesses, previous surgeries and the medications you take, it is also important to ascertain your response to anesthesia. If necessary, the anaesthetist will also conduct other examinations like a 24-hour ECG or a cardiac ultrasound (echocardiography). He will explain the planned route of anaesthesia to you and will inform you of the attendant risks. Your anaesthetist will also advise you on the various methods available for post-op pain treatment.
Intensive Care Medicine
In the ukb intensive care wards, there are a total of 39 beds available for the care of our patients. Patients undergoing extensive surgery or who suffer from secondary diseases - particularly of the heart and circulatory system - are usually first treated in the ICU after the operation. In many cases, it is already necessary to make preparations for intensive care the day before the operation. In the ICU, we also care for patients who have been in serious traffic accidents, have had brain haemorrhages or heart attacks and need either intensive medical or surgical care.Pain Therapy
Pain therapy usually begins right after an operation in the anaesthetic recovery room. Here, pain is treated so that you can be transferred to your ward pain-free. The further pain therapy will then be carried out on your ward.In many cases, however, it is necessary to use a special method to eliminate pain in the operated area or to do physiotherapy exercises without feeling any pain.
The staff in the Clinic for Anaesthesiology, Intensive Care Medicine and Pain Therapy thus apply special catheters to temporarily “shut off” the nerves responsible for communicating pain to the brain from the area of the body that was operated on.
However, for patients suffering chronic pain, our staff also does all it can to respond to their needs, including administering the adequate medication and using special techniques for the easing of pain.
Unfallkrankenhaus Berlin
Clinic for Anesthesiology, Intensive Medicine and Pain Therapy
Warener Str. 712683 Berlin
Germany
Clinical Director
Prof. Dr. med. Walter Schaffartzik
Fax +49 30/5681-3103
walter.schaffartzik@ukb.de