Anaesthesia and Resuscitation

The ISNB Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Unit provides treatment and care services in the field of intensive care and reanimation, with particular expertise in critical neurosurgical and neurological diseases and pain therapy. The unit provides care activities in multiple corporate, metropolitan and regional ISNB PDTAs.

Care activities

Neuroanesthesia at the ISNB serves the Neurosurgery and Neuroradiology units. The team is made up of 25 specialist doctors with experience in particular types of oncological neurosurgery (including awake patients), vascular neurosurgery, functional epilepsy neurosurgery, pituitary and basicranium neurosurgery, paediatric neurosurgery, complex spinal surgery, diagnostic and interventional neuroradiology in both adult and paediatric patients. Every year, more than 4,000 operations are performed, over 1,000 of which are sedation outside the operating theatre (NORA)
The Anaesthesia and Reanimation Unit manages the treatment of acute postoperative pain and the therapy of chronic neuropathic pain, especially of spinal origin, carried out on an outpatient and DH basis. In addition, the Anaesthesia and Reanimation Unit manages the Intensive Care Centre equipped with 12 beds, technologically advanced diagnostic, monitoring and intensive care instrumentation with advanced IT support.

The skills and internal organisation are particularly geared towards the diagnosis and treatment of serious neurological pathologies, especially cerebral pathologies, both surgical (pre-postoperative) and medical (status epilepticus, acute metabolic cerebral coma, infectious and inflammatory encephalopathies in the acute phase).
The humanisation approach to care and the palliative role at the end of life are emphasised, as well as organ and tissue donation. Intra-hospital emergency is managed by I.T. staff.

Research activities

The main areas of research are

• metabolism and clinical nutrition
• organ transplants
• sepsis
• cerebral coma
• neuroanesthesia
• pain therapy.

Publications

See the list of the most representative publications of this Unit.

Staff

Carlo Alberto Castioni, Director
Francesca Romana Ruma, nursing coordinator
Raffaele Aspide, medical executive
Marco Bandini, medical executive
Bruno Berselli, medical executive
Silvia Bolognesi, medical executive
Serena Campi, medical executive
Serena De Luca, medical executive
Lorenzo Di Mauro, medical executive
Giulia Fortunelli, medical executive
Gaetano Gentili, medical executive
Carlo Marcelletti, medical executive
Golcin Makanouni, medical executive
Concetta Marganella, medical executive
Vito Antonio Piserchia, medical executive
Alessandra Razzaboni, medical executive
Emanuele Saporito, medical executive
Cristiana Simonetti, medical executive
Gloria Stofella, medical executive
Caterina Testoni, medical executive
Matteo Vincenzi, medical executive
Tommaso Zambelli, medical executive