More than 1,500 patients have taken part in the Clínic Prehabilitation Program
Physical exercise, nutritional support and psychological care transform the waiting period before surgery into an opportunity to improve patients’...
Service News from Anaesthesia Department
The Clínic strengthens its commitment to robotic surgery and increases its activity by 12% in one year
In 2024, the Hospital Clínic Barcelona increased its robotic surgery activity by 12% compared to the previous year. The number of robotic surgeries...
Why you should prepare for surgery
Prehabilitation is the preparation of a patient before undergoing surgery. Taking physical exercise and improving your diet and other habits before...
Dra. Isabel Vilaseca: “Surgery must be based on improvements in technology in order to enhance patients’ quality of life”
Ten months ago, she was appointed director of the Surgical Area of the Hospital Clínic de Barcelona. Around 30,000 surgeries are performed at the H...
The Hospital Clínic, the second best public hospital in Spain according to the Health Reputation Monitor 2023
The hospital stands out with five services in first place: Digestive System, General and Digestive Surgery, Haematology, Nephrology, and Radiodiag...
Doctors Carmona, Castellà, Valero and the Hospital Clínic Diabetes Unit, Professional Excellence Awards 2023
The Medical Association of Barcelona (COMB) presents these awards to professionals who have stood out over the course of the year due to their exce...
The Hospital Clínic Pain Unit receives the European “Education and Training Excellence ” accreditation
The accreditation highlights the professional and academic quality of the medical staff at the Pain Unit.
How is pain measured?
Pain is associated with emotions. This makes it a subjective sensation very difficult to measure. Nowadays, there are tools, such as scales or ques...
Learning to measure chronic pain: a complex, but necessary challenge
Chronic pain is the type of pain that lasts or recurs for months or years. Can it be measured? And can we do anything to improve the symptoms?
The Hospital Clínic launches a new healthcare unit to treat chronic pain and is committed to a new way of interacting with patients
The Hospital Clínic Barcelona recently opened a new healthcare unit dedicated to the Pain Unit in the Anaesthesiology, Resuscitation and Pain Treat...