Centre for Pain Medicine and Interventional Pain Therapy

The Schmerzklinik Basel has an Intermediate Care Unit with twelve monitoring beds for the supervision of outpatient therapies. Specialised nursing staff from the fields of anaesthesiology and intensive care medicine administer the respective infusions and monitor the vital parameters according to the doctor's prescription.

Referrals for these measures come both from the outpatient and inpatient sectors of the pain clinic and from colleagues in private practice who do not wish to or are unable to carry out these infusion therapies in their practice. A specialist in anaesthesiology is always available. There is pain that cannot be relieved with physiotherapy, medication or other conservative therapies. Most of the time, these are chronic complaints from the musculoskeletal system after injuries, operations or due to age-related changes. Often, the resulting pain is complicated by the so-called pain memory. Here, the specialists in the Department of Interventional Pain Diagnostics and Therapy help with special treatment methods.