The Groupe Anesthésie-Réanimation is an association of eleven specialists in anaesthesiology - intensive care medicine and emergency care, attached to the Centre Hospitalier Emile Mayrisch (CHEM) and consulting in their Medical Consultation in Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg.

The aim of our association of medical specialists is to provide qualified care to the patient all around the clock for hospital, prehospital or ambulatory care.

The great variety of our tasks as well as the constant adaptation to new diagnostic and therapeutic methods are better guaranteed in a team of specialists in close cooperation.

Our tasks cover:

In our medical consultation in Esch-sur-Alzette:

• Preoperative evaluation of anaesthesia risk and the adequate method before surgery or diagnostic intervention needing anaesthesia
• Evaluation and information before epidural anaesthesia for labour
• Evaluation and treatment of chronic pain (in collaboration with other specialists)
• Evaluation and preparation of autologous blood transfusion ( autologous blood donation) before major surgery with an important risk of blood transfusion.

In the Centre Hospitalier Emile Mayrisch (CHEM) :

• realization of all kinds of general and regional anaesthesia, including epidural and spinal anaesthesia
• critical care of severely ill patients on our intensive care unit (Service de Réanimation)
• participation in emergency medicine for critically ill patients within the Emergency Ward of the HVEA (Service des Urgences)
• the treatment of acute postoperative and chronic pain
• participation in prehospital emergency medicine in the southern part of Luxembourg (SAMU Sud)
• organization and realization of autologous blood transfusion (autologous blood donation)
• organization and realization of ambulatory or in-hospital treatment by hyper baric Oxygenation in our hyper baric chamber within the scope of the "Centre National d'Oxygénothérapie hyperbare"