Clinical Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care

Contact details for the Secretariat - phone: (47) 722 14 50 | e-mail: anestezja@cskmswia.gov.pl

Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care

Office contacts:

phone: +48 47 722 14 50

e-mail: anestezja@cskmswia.gov.pl

The department has 30 intensive care beds:

ICU 1. - 11 beds, 4th floor, building D, phone +48 47 722 14 52

ICU 2. - 10 beds, 5th floor, building B, phone. +48 47 722 18 41 / ECMO ICU

ICU 3. - 9 beds, 5th floor PG building at heliport level, phone +48 47 722 19 38

Operating hours: 24 hours / 7 days

Head of Department:

Konstanty Szułdrzyński, MD, PhD - Intensive Care Specialist, Internal Medicine Specialist

Deputies of the Head of the Department:

Intensive Care and research: Milosz Jankowski, MD - Intensive Care Specialist, Internal Medicine Specialist

Anaesthesiology and organisation of the department: Rafał Świerczyński, MD, Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Specialist

Head Nurse:

Sylwia Anna Kujawska, M.Sc. - Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Nursing

Medical and Nursing Staff

The Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care, together with the other Departments of the Hospital, has an Accreditation Certificate from the Ministry of Health confirming that it meets the highest standards of care. The accreditation was applied to the hospital as a whole.

We value the continuous training of doctors and nurses. We participate in numerous international and national conferences. We organise weekly training sessions for the entire department team, to which we invite authorities from various fields.

The department organises an annual international scientific conference on intensive care medicine called the Intensive Spring (www.intensivespring.com). The next edition will be held in May 2025 in Warsaw. More information will be published soon.

Two student scientific associations operate in our department:

Warsaw Medical University “ANKONA” - supervisor Piotr Frąszczak, MD

Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University - supervisors: Milosz Jankowski, MD, PhD, and Tomasz Apel, MD

During the summer holiday period annually, approximately 40 students of the Medical University of Warsaw undergo a two-week internship in the Department of Anaesthesiology in our department.

The Intensive Care Units provide treatment using state-of-the-art techniques, including:

Invasive and non-invasive mechanical ventilation using advanced techniques (NAVA, FRC measurement, electroimpedance tomography).
Extracorporeal gas exchange and circulatory support techniques (ECMO), as part of the Centre for Extracorporeal Therapies at the Department of Cardiac Surgery.
Extracorporeal blood purification techniques include continuous haemodialysis and haemodiafiltration, therapeutic plasma exchange, haemoadsorption, and albumin dialysis.
Advanced haemodynamic monitoring by thermodilution and arterial pressure curve contour analysis.
Neurological monitoring - EEG analysis by PSI® technique and cerebral oximetry.

Number of beds:

The Intensive Care Units has 30 beds equipped with cardiac monitors with full instrumentation for invasive monitoring, state-of-the-art ventilators, transport ventilators, infusion pumps, active cooling and patient warming systems.

The department participates in several international research projects and conducts its own research.

Anaesthesia and perioperative care:

An anaesthetist examines every patient at the Pre-operative Anaesthesia Consultation Point before surgery to thoroughly prepare for surgery and anaesthesia, reduce pre-operative anxiety, and shorten the hospital stay.

The Pre-operative Anaesthesia Consultation Centre is located in the outpatient clinic building C of the PIM MSWiA.

A vascular access team operates in the department. Our services include vascular line insertion, care and maintenance, troubleshooting, and removal. We provide services for both inpatients and outpatients.

Vascular accesses performed in the Vascular Access Laboratory of the PIM MSWiA: