General Intensive Care Unit

Department Director: Dr. Boris Iskovitch

Deputy Department Director: Dr. Constantin Nimrak 

Head Nurse: Ms. Penina Biton

Senior Physicians:

Dr. Yaakov Daskal
Dr. Mohanad Ghanayem

About the Staff

The department staff is made up of a team of intensive care specialists along with basic specializations from the various areas of medical practice (internal medicine, anesthesia and surgery).

There are 40 nurses on staff in the department, all with academic degrees, who have completed an intensive care course as well as additional training in other professional fields that help improve the quality of care. The staff includes members who have completed a clinical instruction, ECMO course, pain management and palliation courses.

Additionally, the multidisciplinary medical and nursing staff includes physical therapists, a social worker, occupational therapists, clinical dietitians and a clinical pharmacist.

Number of Beds: 13

Location:

Main Building, 3rd Floor

Telephone Numbers:

Secretary - 04-7744218

Department – 04-7744460/1, 04-7748565/6

Head Nurse – 04-7744684

Fax: 04-7744445  

Office hours for senior physician/ unit director:

Throughout the hospitalization, reports and updates are given by the staff, along with further meetings and updates as requested by the family. Likewise, family members are invited to call the Unit round the clock for basic updated information about their loved ones, to the telephone numbers of the department and secretary listed above.

A senior physician is available to meet from 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m.

Unit visiting hours:

7:30 a.m. - 8:00 a.m.

12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.

6:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.

Please keep to visiting hours.

The department treats patients with multisystem organ failure who are hospitalized through the Department of Emergency Medicine or who are transferred to the department from other hospital departments, when necessary. The patients in the department have trauma injuries, serious internal diseases, have undergone major surgery or are children requiring respiratory support.

Each year approximately 700 patients are hospitalized in the department. 40% of them are hospitalized due to internal diseases and 60% following major surgery or trauma injuries.

The unit has 13 treatment units. The patients in the unit are fully monitored, including invasive and noninvasive monitoring systems (blood pressure, pulse, respiration rate and blood oxygen saturation), advanced hemodynamic monitoring devices, advanced respiratory support system, intravenous infusion systems, advanced systems for treatment of kidney failure, plasma replacement therapy, extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) systems, sonar monitoring and diagnosis and more.

The department holds staff meetings and visits, lectures and literature reviews, regular meetings with consultants from other departments (infectious diseases, imaging, internal medicine and surgery).

The department is affiliated with the Technion and is regularly engaged in research, teaching of students and guidance of interns.

During hospitalization in the department, if necessary, patients can meet with the department’s multidisciplinary staff.