Surgeon in Switzerland

[Alephy]

I will carefully read through. One thing that made me consider them is that when I got in touch with the doctor he mentioned the possibility of absorbable mesh as well as suture only repair. I made clear in my email that a permanent mesh is not to my liking….they explicitly mention these absorbable meshes paired with the right technique….

in the end it might go down to shouldice or similar: any advice for that for switzerland?

[Good intentions]

Here is one more thing from that link. You have to click through the other links on their page to fully understand what they are.

“Since the development of the implantable synthetic mesh for strengthening the abdominal wall, the mesh-free procedures are only used for children and in some special cases.’

https://www.hernienzentrum.ch/mesh-free-procedure.html

[Good intentions]

It looks like some sort of cooperative. The page has links all the way back to the big “Guidelines” meeting set up by Herniasurge. See the link to the Guidelines at the bottom of the first page in your link. The Herniamed page that they link to is sponsored by the major mesh makers, you can see them all at the bottom of the Herniamed page. The “Herniacenter Switzerland” seems to be a mesh-centered hernia repair house. Everything about them says “mesh”.

It looks like there is also a “registry” and survey effort similar to the AHSQC. See the bottom of the first page of my second link to see the “HQAS” description. “If you are interested in participating in the Herniamed Quality Assurance Study please register here:”

Fascinating how the Herniasurge effort is growing. It seems very powerful. All sponsored by the device makers.

https://www.hernienzentrum.ch/homepage.html

https://www.herniamed.de/en

[drtowfigh]

No. Not familiar with them.