About us

The Department of Anesthesiology and Resuscitation (ARO) provides comprehensive care for patients during surgery as well as in the periods prior to and following their operations, handling the administration of general anesthesia and a variety of local anesthetics, particularly in the Departments of Vascular Surgery and General Surgery. The sedation and provision of general anesthesia to children undergoing magnetic resonance imaging and Gamma knife treatment is a separate area.

2007 saw another increase in the number of anesthesiological interventions. The chemical lumbar sympathectomy method was introduced into routine practice.

The Resuscitation unit provides a complex diagnostic service and treatment of patients whose general state of health is affected by disorders to their basic vital functions so severe as to be life-threatening and who require the highest level of medical care.

The department also disposes of a hyperbaric chamber offering thepossibility of artificial pulmonary ventilation and other specialized methods of reanimation treatment.

The Pain Clinic deals with problems experienced by patients in chronic pain.

The ARO has 8 beds and 72 patients were admitted to the department in 2007, with an average treatment time of 38 days per patient. During the same period, 10,178 anesthetics were administered in 27 treatment centers. 180 patients received general anesthesia in the Na Homolce Center of Robotic Surgery, of which 10 were from Cardiac Surgery, 47 from Vascular Surgery, 110 from General Surgery and Urology and, 33 from gynecology. 1,355 acute anesthetics were administered. 121 interventions were performed for the treatment of pain and peripheral vascular disorders. 333 sessions took place in the hyperbaric chamber.