Department of Intensive Care Medicine

Inselspital Bern

The Department is responsible for the intensive medical care of all temporarily life-threatening adult patients of the Inselspital as well as patients in need of intensive care in the region. Medical treatment is provided on an interprofessional basis by highly trained specialists using the latest technologies and procedures.

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Profile

  • Key objective: to gain knowledge on pathophysiological processes, host response patterns, and therapeutic options in critical illness
  • Key focus: organ dysfunctions, fluid management, metabolism/immune responses, post-resuscitation care, severe infections, animal models on phage therapy and treatment of antibiotic-resistant infections, artificial intelligence, and post-ICU/family care
  • Full range of scientific activity in critical illness: international and national multi-center trials, IITs, systematic reviews, meta-analyses, animal models, laboratory research

External Partners

Inselspital/University of Bern: ARTORG; Departments of Infectious Disease, Nephrology, Neurosurgery and Cardiovascular Surgery; ETH Zurich; university hospitals of Basel, Zurich and Geneva; cantonal hospitals of St. Gallen and Winterthur; Collaboration of Research in Intensive Care (CRIC, Copenhagen); ANZICS Trial Network (Australia); Charité – Berlin University of Medicine; European Group on Immunology in Sepsis (EGIS)

Grants

  • PHRT Grant, Advanced Machine Learning for Intelligent Decision Support in the Intensive Care Unit (Project # 2022-278) CHF 1,942,728
  • MedTech Collaboration Call, Non-invasive measurements of changes in pulmonary artery pressure in intensive care unit patients using electrical impedance tomography: a feasibility study (BMCC2024); CHF 299,500
  • Novartis Foundation, Unlocking the Potential of Personalized Phage Therapy for LVAD Patients with Staphylococcus epidermidis Infections (#24A078), CHF 80,000