ANAESTHESIOLOGY SERVICE

The anaesthetic activity of the Service is determined by the small number of doctors who integrate it.
Consequently, its activity is essentially of health care provision:  

Anaesthesia for programmed surgery

Conventional - 4 rooms in the central unit
Outpatients - 2 rooms in the outpatient unit

Anaesthesia in locations far from the Operating Room

Gastroenterology/Endoscopy Unit
Imaging

Preoperative medicine

All patients proposed for programmed surgery shall be subject to a pre-evaluation in an-Anaesthesiology Consultation.
Pre-anaesthetic consultation

Post-anaesthetic care

In the Central Operating Room area there is a Post-Care Anaesthesia Unit with 8 "beds" and all the necessary devices for monitoring patients who have been operated.

In the area of the Outpatients Operating Room there is a Post-Care Anaesthesia Unit duly equipped with 4 beds and 2 armchairs.

Activities Performed in the Emergency Service

• Emergency Surgery Anaesthesia
  • Anaesthesia for all surgical specialties existing in the HCCB
• Obstetric Emergency/Delivery Room
  • Anaesthesia for obstetric surgery
  • Epidural Analgesia in Labour
• Emergency/Reanimation
  • Support in the reanimation room of the E.R.
  • Support in the internal emergency service

Chronic pain consultation

On a weekly basis, it addresses oncological and non-oncological pain.

Teaching activity

Is conducted on a regular basis and organised by three members of the service, who teach in the Medical School of the Faculty of Health Sciences of the Beira Interior University.
All anaesthetists are involved in training students and trainees of all courses in the health area, who are placed in services where they carry out their activity, namely in the Operating Room.

Director
Dr. Isabel Maria Flores da Silva

Contact
Phone: (+351) 275 330 000 Ext. 12400

Location
Pêro da Covilhã Hospital – 2^nd Floor, near the Operating Room.