Rashid Hospital’s Emergency and Trauma Centre undergoes expansions

The Dubai Health Authority, DHA, has provided the latest smart systems and expanded the Emergency and Trauma Centre at Rashid Hospital, making it the biggest emergency department in the country, in a bid to provide live-saving treatment for patients in critical care.

Some of the latest developments made by the authority’s IT Department is the Salama Project, which has linked the DHA electronic medical records system with the ambulances of Dubai Corporation for Ambulance Service.

Dr. Victor Butros, Consultant and Head of Emergency Department, said that by linking Salama with the ambulances, paramedics will be able to notify the emergency department with the patient’s condition before they arrive to the hospital. The information will be displayed on a screen allowing doctors and nurses to prepare accordingly to meet the patient’s treatment needs prior to their arrival.

The DHA has also expanded earlier last year Rashid Hospital’s trauma centre to include two floors with a capacity of 159 beds. The second floor will be designated for intensive care specialty, including internal medicine, neurosurgery and general surgery. This is an increase of 50 percent in intensive care beds. The third floor will be used for general surgery, specialised surgeries, and fractures to name a few.

The expansion of Rashid Hospital’s trauma centre will better help cater to the 500-600 daily cases the centre receives.

New medical specialisations have also been added as part of the expansion, they include hand, liver and spine surgery, bone fractures and bariatric surgery. High-quality technology has been added to the smart beds that track the status of a patient while they rest to avoid cases of falling out of the bed, an indicator used to measure excellence and patients’ safety in the hospital.