Department of Anaesthesiology and Pain Medicine

Inselspital Bern

The Department of Anaesthesiology and Pain Medicine aims to define the best practices for personalized perioperative patient care, with basic science as a foundation, translational medicine, clinical outcome studies and AI-guided approached as the vision for the future.

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Director and Chief Physician

Prof. Frank Stüber

Profile

  • Advanced Airway Management
  • Anaesthetic Pharmacology
  • Anaesthetic Management, Safety and Enhanced Recovery after Major Surgery
  • Ambulatory Anaesthesia
  • Cardiovascular Anaesthesiology
  • Clinical and Molecular Pain Research
  • Preclinical Emergency Medicine
  • Genetics, Molecular Biology and Outcomes Research
  • Monitoring of Anaesthesia Depth
  • Organ Protection
  • Regional Anaesthesia Techniques
  • Respiratory System and Sleep Assessment

External Partners

We have various collaborations with local, national and international medical research centers.

Grants

The department received several peer reviewed funds (SNF, BMCC, EACTAIC, ESAIC, among many)

Highlights 2025

Prof. Dr. med. F. Stüber, Dr. med. T. Schweizer, Dr. med. F. Jardot, Dr. sc. nat. M. Huber

Successful Year at the Swiss Society of Anaesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine (SSAPM) Congress 2025

At the Swiss Anaesthesia Congress 2025 the Swiss Society for Anaesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine (SSAPM) honored scientific projects from our department with awards.

Category: Paper of the Year 2025
Jardot F, Hahn RG, Engel D, Beilstein CM, Wuethrich PY. “Blood volume and hemodynamics during treatment of major hemorrhage with Ringer solution, 5% albumin, and 20% albumin: a single-center randomized controlled trial.” Critical Care (2024) 28:39

Category: Best Oral Presentations (two joint winners)
The first prize was awarded to the presenters Schweizer T, Biedermann C, Zahnd C, Yogeswaran L, Nagler M, Bally L, Krutkyte G, Galova B, Siepe M, Bottinelli C, Fischer K, and Guensch DP for the presentation “Intraoperative alterations in insulin, C-peptide, and haemolysis during cardiopulmonary bypass: insights from an observational study.”


Researchers Huber M and Wuethrich P were also awarded first prize for their work “Randomized controlled trials of goal-directed haemodynamic therapy for noncardiac surgery: a Bayesian reanalysis of available evidence.”

Category: Best Poster Award (2nd)
The second prize was awarded to the authors Zhang L, Stamer UM, Moolan-Vadackumchery R, Kocinec M, and Stüber F for the work “The impact of microRNAs on the regulation of the nociceptin system in human blood leukocytes.”

Jardot et al., Crit Care. 2024

View of Supplementum 292, October 14, 2025