Intensive Care Unit has highly advanced facilities like negative-pressure isolation rooms for severely infected cases
Al Ain - Al Ain Hospital, owned and operated by Abu Dhabi Health Services Company PJSC (SEHA) and managed by Medical University of Vienna and VAMED, has expanded the capacity of its multi-disciplinary Intensive Care Unit.
With enhanced capacity and capabilities the new, 14 bedded unit is equipped to handle patients who are critically ill suffering from life threatening conditions - whether they are pediatric or adult, surgical cases, trauma related, internal medicine issues or other cases. All beds are fitted with state of the art equipment to monitor and treat critical patients.
"We serve as an important Emergency and Trauma Centre for the community of Al Ain and the expansion of the ICU enhances our capabilities to provide critical care," said Mr. George Jepson, CEO of Al Ain Hospital.
With emphasis on individual attention for patients, nursing is provided on a 1:1 basis so that each patient is looked after by an assigned nurse. The unit also has a specialist intensivist on-call 24 hours a day, plus additional doctors during regular hours.
"This Intensive Care Unit has highly advanced facilities like negative-pressure isolation rooms for severely infected cases," emphasised Prof. Gerhard Schwab, Medical Director of Al Ain Hospital.
A negative pressure room intakes clean air from within a clean ward in the hospital and exhausts the air to the outside air, preventing cross contamination within the surrounding environment, reducing infections or spread of diseases.
The interdisciplinary ICU team which consists of specialist doctors, nurses, respiratory therapists, physiotherapists, dieticians and a pharmacist is headed by Prof. Eugen Adelsmayr, Head of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Institute.
"With the expansion we are now able to provide very highly skilled critical care. We are now able to treat all kinds of organ failures - heart and circulation, lungs, kidneys etc," explained Prof. Adelsmayr.
"We have hired accomplished specialists and put in place advanced medical equipment to provide complex services like plasma exchange (plasmapheresis) and renal-replacement therapy (hemofiltration) for up to three patients simultaneously.
The ICU, which is a department under Al Ain Hospital's Institute for Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, treats around 400 patients per year.
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About Al Ain Hospital
Al Ain Hospital is a 412 -bed acute care hospital with more than 250 physicians on staff, 35+ medical departments and three Family Medicine Centers. The hospital's emergency room serves the Al Ain community by operating 24 hours a day, seven days a week, year round. Al Ain Hospital is committed to providing the community with high-quality healthcare in a safe, caring, confidential environment in line with European world class standards and the expectations of the Al Ain community and the UAE.
Each day, an average of 250 patients is seen in the Emergency Room. With more than 320,000 outpatients seen in the Specialty Outpatient Clinics and Family Medicine Centers, the hospital is a key competency centre for multidisciplinary, specialist, ambulatory and outpatient diagnostics and treatment services. Al Ain Hospital is managed under an exclusive partnership between VAMED (a leading European Hospital Management company) and, Medical University of Vienna. In addition to this, Al Ain Hospital has a long established prestigious collaboration with the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, UAE University in Al Ain. Al Ain Hospital is owned and operated by an Abu Dhabi Health Services company (SEHA) which is responsible for all curative activities of the public hospitals and clinics of the Emirate of Abu Dhabi. For more information please visit; www.alain-hospital.ae
About the SEHA HealthSystem and the Abu Dhabi Health Services Company PJSC (SEHA)
SEHA is health in Arabic. The Abu Dhabi Health Services Company PJSC- whose marketing identity is SEHA - is an independent, public joint stock company created to develop the curative activities of the public healthcare system in Abu Dhabi. The company owns and operates all the public hospitals and clinics of the Emirate of Abu Dhabi which together make up the SEHA HealthSystem. SEHA is committed to continuous improvement of customer care to recognized international standards and providing our customers and communities served world class healthcare. SEHA has partnered with internationally recognized hospital managers to achieve these goals. These include Johns Hopkins Medicine International, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, VAMED, Medical University of Vienna, Bumrungrad International and Fresenius Medical Care. SEHA owns and operates 12 hospitals with 2,644 beds, 62 ambulatory care, family care and urgent care centers and 2 blood banks. SEHA is one of the largest integrated healthcare providers in the Middle East with more than 17,000 doctors, nurses, ancillary care and administrative personnel in its employ. Visit our website at www.seha.ae.
© Press Release 2011
