Perioperative, Intensive Care and Pain Medicine

We are in charge of anesthesia in Jorvi, Lohja, Raasepori hospitals as well as in the New Children´s Hospital and the Women´s Hospital as well as all perioperative function in Jorvi Hospital.

Anesthesia activities also include general anesthesia and pain relief provided outside the operating rooms, such as the treatment of labor pain.

We are in charge of anesthesia as well as nearly all perioperative functions in Hyvinkää, Herttoniemi and Peijas hospitals as well as the Park Hospital and Eye and Ear Hospital.

Anesthesia activities also include general anesthesia and pain relief provided outside the operating rooms, such as the treatment of labor pain.

We are responsible for the anesthesia at hospitals in Meilahti, Töölö and Porvoo and for the perioperative activities of nearly all these different surgical units. Anesthesia activities also include general anesthesia and pain relief provided outside the operating rooms.

We are responsible for the activities of the intensive care and intermediate care units and for the development of these activities. Intensive care includes the maintenance of vital functions of a critically ill patient and the treatment of the patient in the intensive care or intermediate care unit. The activities can take place in cooperation with experts in several specialties, such as specialists in internal medicine, surgeons, and neurologists. The Perioperative, Intensive Care and Pain Medicine department manages a total of four intensive care or intermediate care units in Uusimaa.

Our division includes the HUS Simulation Center, and ATeK Training center, a unit that provides research, education, and expert services. 

At the core of the Pain Medicine division is the Pain Clinic, where we provide pain management services in the largest hospitals and pain outpatient clinics in Uusimaa. In addition to anesthesiologists, there is also a neurologist, psychiatrist, and psychologist working in the clinic. Management of pain includes the treatment of both acute and chronic pain. Acute pain management is needed, for example, after surgery. Chronic pain includes, for example, cancer pain and neurogenic pain.

We provide equipment cleaning, disinfection and sterilization services and act as an expert in the work for preventing the spread of infections.