Internal Ward

Internal medicine physicians are those trained to treat various areas of internal diseases. These physicians may solve various problems of patients from acute to long-term diseases and eliminate their symptoms.

Here, we intend to introduce the nature of the activity of these physicians, their usual procedures and treatment methods, sub-specialties and other plans carried out by internal physicians.

Internal medicine scope of services includes 24-hour care and management of patients with general problems (like pneumonia, chronic lung disease, urinary tract infections, upper gastrointestinal bleeding, acute stroke, liver disease, and diabetes-related diseases). Moreover, this medical staff provides counseling services to patients in need of surgery or preoperative preparation procedures.

The nature of the internal ward activity

Physicians specialized in General Internal Medicine (GIM) can diagnose, trace, resolve medical doubts, resolve simultaneous complications (complex medical problems resulted from multiple diseases), and identify the need for treatment or different specialization. The scope of activities of these physicians includes:

• • Diagnosing and treating a wide range of medical disorders acutely observed in the hospitals’ emergency departments and treatment units of acute diseases. These physicians refer the patients to other specialists and necessary treatments and in fact, they are in charge of referring patients.
• • Facilitating the provision of necessary care to patients in the hospital in various wards (like surgery, gynecology and delivery wards), particularly when these people are experiencing a serious or immediate disease or health problems.
• • Diagnosing and treating a wide range of diseases of those referred to medical clinics.
• • Managing inpatients and outpatients suffering from various symptoms, in particular the elderly patients with weakness or mental retardation. Internal medicine physicians indeed address doubts and forecast solutions to manage people’s treatment. • Internal medicine specialists are part of the intensive care workforce, managing acute medical problems, the elderly, or other specialized fields such as gastrointestinal, diabetes, endocrine, respiratory, cardiovascular, renal, and rheumatology.
• Most physicians with internal medicine specialty are also trained in another medical specialty.

Some physicians may perform academic research or play non-clinical roles in medical centers besides internal medicine. .

Typical treatment procedures of internal medicine physicians

There is a bunch of procedures and treatments performed by internal physicians and they provide such services to outpatients or inpatients. Some of these treatments are:

• • Advanced cardiopulmonary resuscitation
• • Direct current (DC) cardioversion, this procedure alters the abnormal heart rhythm to a normal rhythm.
• • Temporary pacing or cardiac massage
• • Performing surgeries on veins (peripheral or central)
• • Removal of fluid from the chest and abdomen
• • Placing drainage tubes in the chest and abdomen
• • Removal of spinal fluid
• • Prescribing medication for acute and long-term diseases
• Ward Name: Internal Ward
• Location: it is located on the second floor of the hospital’s main building.
• Number of active beds: seventeen beds
• Specialized services available in the ward:
• In this ward, patients are provided with services by specialized and sub-specialized physicians and an experienced nursing team, by means of advanced facilities and equipment at 24 hours of the day and night. This ward is adjacent to the ICU.M ward.

• Services of this ward:

• • Hospitalization of patients for elective and emergency surgeries as well as pre- and post-operative care
• • Hospitalization of trauma patients
• • Hospitalization of patients with postoperative problems
• • Admission of patients with internal diseases
• • Admission of patients referring for check-up
• • Admission of POST-ICU patients
• • Preparing and serving food to patients

Internal number: 226