Research

Doctor responsible for the unit:
Pr Walid HABRE
walid.habre@hcuge.ch

The Anesthesiology Division conducts research in the following areas:

• 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).