Bernadette L. s’est faite opérer de l’estomac et a perdu beaucoup de poids. Depuis, sa vie a changé. Le regard des autres est différent, son regard sur elle-même aussi.
Opération
Outpatient
Consultations
For a consultation at HUG, in principle you need to be referred by your attending physician. You can check this by calling our various consultations. Find all the useful information in the Consultations Guide.
Surgery
An outpatient procedure is a medical procedure scheduled to be performed on a single day. You are then admitted to the hospital, you are operated upon or you undergo an examination and you return home on the same day.
When pain persists
When it gets you down
Chronic pain is very different from the acute pain that follows an illness, an accident, an examination or even an operation. The pain frequently has a serious disturbing effect on daily life and can result in mood swings.
Ways to feel better
How do you deal with pain that remains after your treatment? There are ways:
Surgery
Focus on 2025
AC10 – surgical activities in ten years: this is HUG’s vast project to respond to the 1% annual increase in the population’s needs. The project’s first milestone: the opening in 2017 of six new operating theatres, including two equipped with a robot, in the Gustave Julliard building.
Other steps are planned with:
What will the procedure involve?
You will be given custom-tailored anesthesia by specialized doctors and nurses. Before you are brought to the operating room, you may be offered medication to control anxiety.
Your anesthetic care will start by fitting devices to monitor your vital functions: