Our clinic is equipped with an Intensive Care and Post-Anaesthetic Recovery Unit open 24 hours a day.

The department of Anaesthesiology, Reanimation and Pain Medicine ensures in this way that the patient undergoing such an important event as surgery gets the best possible postoperative care. The team of professionals that comprise this unit strive to make the hospital stay of the patient hospital as safe and as pleasant as possible during their immediate recovery.

Upon completion of the surgical procedure, an anaesthetist accompanies that patient from the operating theatre to the Recovery Unit. Admittance criteria into the Recovery Unit depend on the aggressiveness of the surgical procedure, the age and the associated pathology of the patient, as well as the intensity of the postoperative pain.

From the time the patient is admitted into this unit, the anaesthetist ensures that the patient is stable after surgery controlling the much-feared postoperative pain. During the stay at the unit, vital signs are constantly monitored to assess the patient´s progress and to establish any postoperative treatment that may be required in order to promote the patient´s recovery.

For us postoperative analgesic control of the pain is of outmost importance. Our department dedicates a considerable amount of its healthcare activity to pain management and to the observance of protocols that are constantly updated to provide the most effective and safest analgesic techniques. Pain control starts as son as the patient wakes up from anaesthesia and finalises when the patient´s is stable postoperatively.

Once the patient has been admitted and is settled, relatives are allowed in the unit and can remain by the patient´s bedside during visiting hours. The anaesthetist in charge will inform relatives of the patient´s condition after admittance and after the morning’s visit or at any time the relatives may require further information or explanation to their questions.