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New The addition of 12 new intensive
care treatment stations will
Intensive significantly expand our life-saving
capabilities and allow us to provide
Care Unit critically important care to patients
whose lives depend on it, among
them civilians and IDF soldiers.
Background
The Soroka Intensive Care Units (ICUs) provide civilians. The medical staffs of the units include
care for hospitalized patients, including those physicians of internal medicine, surgery,
suffering from trauma and various internal obstetrics and gynecology and anesthesia
diseases, those who have undergone difficult with a sub-specialty in intensive care.
surgeries or surgeries with complications,
multisystem failure as a consequence of The professional capabilities of the teams
sepsis, neurosurgical procedures, cardiac are outstanding and include expertise in the
surgery, cerebral angiography, drowning, heat use of ECMO (heart-lung machine), POCUS
stroke (hikers and IDF soldiers), poisoning, (point-of-care ultrasound), renal replacement
snake and scorpion bites, and more. therapy, and many other complex treatments.
In addition, LVAD (left ventricular assist device)
Soroka is a supra-regional medical center that technology, a kind of artificial heart transplant,
provides intensive care to the most challenging will be introduced in the near future.
patients in Israel’s southern region. In times of
military conflict and emergency, the hospital The clinical results of Soroka’s general and
in general and the intensive care units in medical intensive care units are among the
particular treat seriously injured soldiers and best in the world.
