Surgical Intensive Care Unit

​Patients hospitalized in the unit suffer from a wide variety of severe ailments. They include patients who have critical injuries to multiple systems, patients following transplant surgery, and patients who need monitoring and meticulous care following extensive surgery.

Critical care medical specialists
The unit's medical team is composed of physicians specializing in critical-care medicine assisted by senior surgeons from the various surgical departments in the hospital. Nurses with special training and expertise in intensive care staff the unit, each nurse caring for a maximum of two patients. In addition, members of the hospital's physiotherapy and dietitian staffs visit daily.


Intense monitoring, treatment, and consultation

  • Each morning, a senior physician of the unit and its medical staff conduct regular, daily teaching rounds.
  • Rounds are followed by ongoing treatment of the patients in the unit.
  • In the afternoon, a senior physician, staff doctors and residents visit patients again.
  • Twice weekly, as part of regular Surgery Division activity, the Division Director conducts teaching rounds that include the senior physicians and residents of Surgery Division B.
  • In addition, conferences with the staff of the Infectious Diseases Unit take place twice a week.

State-of-the-art equipment

The unit has state-of-the-art monitoring equipment as well as mechanical ventilation capabilities encompassing the full range of authorized artificial respirators. Supplementary equipment includes automatic injection systems, blood and patient warmers, gas, hemofiltration and dialysis machines.

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