Center for Anesthesiology, Intensive Care and Pain management
Who we are?
This center is one of the branches of Vilnius University Hospital Santaros Klinikos. It delivers top quality services in anesthesia, pain management and intensive care. Our staff constantly upgrades both medical knowledge and soft skills to provide finest medical services based on latest medical research and technologies.
Today Anesthesiology and reanimatology clinic consists of 3 centers:
- Center of Anesthesiology, Intensive care and Pain Management (established in 2002 at Vilnius University Hospital Santaros Klinikos; previously run by assist. prof. Alis Baublys and prof. Jūratė Šipylaitė; current chief – prof. Tomas Jovaiša)
- Center of Anesthesiology, Reanimatology and Critical Care Medicine (established in 2002 at Republic Vilnius University Hospital; previously run by prof. Juozas Ivaškevičius, current chief – prof. Saulius Vosylius)
- Center of Toxicology (established in 2010 at Republic Vilnius University Hospital, chief of the center – Robertas Badaras, MD, PhD)
Why do we stand out?
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In 1994 here the first Pain Management Clinic in Lithuania was opened where multidisciplinary team continues caring for patients with pain disorders up to nowadays
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Here we have the specialized Department and ICU of newborn and children with congenital heart disease, which is unique such unit in Lithuania
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Members of our center run the Clinical Nutrition Group in this hospital, consult and treat patients who need enteral or parenteral nutrition at home
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We have built a lot of experience providing ECMO (extracorporeal membrane oxygenation) services for critically ill patients, surgical patients in the operating room and intensive care units. ECMO personnel help patients with critical heart failure, respiratory failure or prolonged resuscitation. We have a mobile ECMO team as well, that is able to transport ECMO patients from other hospitals.
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The staff is involved in multiple medical trials helping to improve the care of our patients
What services we provide for our patients?
- Modern anesthesia, perioperative care and pain management for patients undergoing abdominal, cardiac, vascular, ENT, obstetric, gynecological, urological, eye surgery, plastic-reconstructive, orthopedic-traumatological, neurosurgical and interventional radiology procedures
- Anesthesia, perioperative management and intensive care for patients undergoing heart, liver, kidney, pancreas-kidney complex or corneal transplantation
- Consultations for patients suffering with various pain syndromes; pharmacological and invasive pain management strategies are applied if needed
- Intensive care for patients with critical conditions, including sepsis, multiple organ dysfunction and other critical conditions. Advanced organ support methods, such as mechanical lung ventilation, ECMO, renal replacement therapy, extracorporeal liver (MARS, bilirubin sorption) or cardiac support (intra-aortic balloon counterpulsation, ventricular assist devices)
- Psychological and physical rehabilitation services for intensive care patients
What services we provide for medical community?
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Our staff takes place in preparing medical graduates and post-graduates according to the requirements of European Union and WHO, give lectures and seminars for medicine, public health, odontology, pharmaceutics, nursing students. Around 40 Anesthesiology and Reanimatology residents rotate in our center annually
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We organize CME (continuing medical education) programs and courses for Anesthesiology and Intensive Care specialists, as well as other specialty doctors and nurses
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Clinical Nutrition Group arranges Course on enteral and parenteral nutrition and European Society of Enteral and Parenteral Nutrition Life-Long Learning courses
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Each year we organize Basic and Advanced Life Support courses for our hospital staff
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Members of the center run and control biomedical research and prepare future biomedical scientists
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Our center is involved in building evidence-based public healthcare policy and encourages the unity of science, studies and medical practice
History of the Center
The dawn of anesthesiology and intensive care in Lithuania is related to famous physicians Andrew Sniadecki, Adam Ferdinand Adamowicz and Ludwig Lachowicz, who can be considered as pioneers of pain management and resuscitation at Vilnius University. Development of modern anesthesiology and intensive care is closely linked to the beginning of complex surgery. Difficult surgical procedures drove the need for advanced and safe anesthesia techniques.
History of contemporary anesthesiology started in 1965 at General Surgery Cathedral Clinical Base and Complex Cardiac and Vascular Surgery Laboratory. Here anesthesiology parted from general surgery and started developing as a separate medical specialty. Simultaneously, preparation and growth of anesthesiology and intensive care specialist has started.
After reorganization of General Surgery Cathedral in 1990 September 1st, two Anesthesiology and Reanimatology clinics were established (headed by Prof. Juozas Ivaškevičius, MD, PhD and assist. prof. Alis Baublys, MD, PhD). Later in 2002 these two clinics were merged into one Anesthesiology and Reanimatology clinic, which was run by prof. Juozas Ivaškevičius until 2012 and then passed to prof. Jūratė Šipylaitė, MD, PhD.
Last edited: 2021-12-28
