Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care

The Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care is internationally acknowledged and renowned for our state-of-the-art services meeting the highest international standards within almost all specialised fields of anaesthesiology and intensive care.

We participate in international research networks and collaborate closely with a number of specialised departments at Aarhus University Hospital and Aarhus University. We are also very dedicated to pre- and post-graduate training and education.

Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care includes five individual departments at Aarhus University Hospital, each of which covers specific medical fields, and with its own individual management team:

• Department of Anaesthesiology and Surgery North
• Department of Anaesthesiology and Surgery South
• Department of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery
• Department of Intensive Care

Research
Through cooperation and stimulating research environment, we are devoted to creating new medical knowledge to benefit patients. We work within a broad array of clinical fields and strive to create an inspiring research environment.

The list below is by no means exhaustive but gives an indication of the many research areas we cover:

• Acute and chronic pain after surgery
• Anaesthesiological point-of-care ultrasound for bedside diagnostics and intervention procedures
• Animal research
• Cardiac arrest
• Cardiothoracic anaesthesia
• Cognitive rehabilitation in ICU nursing
• Epidemiological studies
• Haemodynamics
• Home mechanical ventilation
• Intensive care medicine
• Intensive care nursing
• Live-music intervention in the ICU
• Neuromodulation
• Neuroanaesthesia
• Prehospital research
• Research in children

You are always welcome to contact us regarding our research at Email: AUH.Research.Anaesthesiology-IntensiveCare@rm.dk

Clinical treatments:

Our highly specialized departments are involved in a variety of clinical treatments for adults and children, all of which can be tailored to meet specific patient needs. The list below shows some of our services:

• trauma care
• prehospital emergency treatment
• organ transplantation
• point-of-care ultrasound for intervention procedures, including regional anaesthesia, and bedside diagnostics
• hyperbar oxygen treatment
• acute pain treatment
• anaesthesia in a broad range of surgical procedures, including outpatients
• anaesthesia in heart transplantation surgery and pulmonary endarterectomy
• extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO)
• assisted device treatment
• chronic respiratory insufficiency care
• intensive care treatment of patients with critical illnesses, including multi-organ failure, sepsis, respiratory and kidney failure