Career
Institute of Intensive Care Medicine
The Institute for Intensive Care Medicine at the USZ runs the largest intensive care unit in Switzerland with currently 64 beds. The various intensive care units provide round-the-clock care and nursing for critically ill patients and patients in life-threatening situations. Almost 4,500 patients are cared for annually across the entire spectrum of modern intensive care medicine.
Intensive care medicine at the University Hospital Zurich is divided into six main areas of intensive care medicine, which are treated in specialized departments.
- Cardiovascular surgery
- Internal medicine
- Neurosurgery
- Burn victims
- Traumatology
- Visceral, thoracic and transplant surgery
We are continuously working on the further development and improvement of intensive care medicine in clinical research, basic research and nursing research.
Podcast USZ direkt – Life-saving decisions in the intensive care unit
Giovanna Brandi is a senior physician at the Institute of Intensive Care Medicine.
A specialty that has always fascinated her.
Today, her everyday life is characterized by quick decisions, intense emotions and difficult fates – but also by lives that go on happily thanks to her commitment.
