Intensive Care

Patients with paraplegia and tetraplegia

The SPC is one of the world’s leading centres for the lifelong support of patients with spinal cord injuries.

 

Patients with neuromuscular diseases

Care and treatment of patients with specific neuromuscular diseases (such as Guillain-Barré syndrome, muscular dystrophy, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis).

 

Permanently ventilated patients

Setting up home ventilation for patients who require permanent breathing assistance.

 

Weaning

Through decades of experience with the use of differentiated weaning concepts, ventilated patients can be weaned from the ventilator during the day or even altogether.

 

Cannula management

In addition to pure respiratory system management, communicative ability and swallowing function are of crucial importance to us.

 

Communication

We best support our patients with limited ability to communicate through collaboration between teams responsible for care, occupational therapy, speech therapy, and medical treatment.

Respiratory Medicine | Swiss Paraplegic Centre

We offer various options for further training and development:

• The Intensive Care unit is used as a venue for a one-year further training course in Intensive Medicine (Cat. B) which is recognised by the FMH.
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• The Intensive Care unit specialist nursing staff supports interns and HF trainees, and supports other areas of treatment with further training on respiratory therapy, resuscitation, continuous respiration, etc.

We are represented at national and international conferences, delivering papers on intensive medicine and care, and on paraplegia.