The cardiology unit at Mt. Scopus serves the large population living in the northern and eastern part of greater Jerusalem, the Judean hills, the Jordan valley and the Dead Sea area. It comprises an intensive coronary care unit, an echocardiography and a stress ECG laboratory as well as a cardiac rehabilitation unit.
Every year about 900 patients are treated in the intensive coronary care unit for an average of 3.5 hospitalization days. Our center was the first in the world to initiate pre-hospital thrombolytic treatment for acute myocardial infarction leading to reperfusion and myocardial salvage much earlier than otherwise possible.

The Mt. Scopus Hadassah hospital is unique, in that it is both an academic and community hospital, working in close relation with the local family physicians. The cardiology unit provides consultation services by telephone and by ECG facsimile, allowing rapid diagnosis and work-up of patients.

The intensive coronary care unit has eight fully monitored beds, two of which are dedicated to intensive medical emergencies such as septic shock or respiratory failure and six, which are for coronary emergencies. The bedside monitors allow continuous ECG, arterial and pulmonary pressure as well as oxygen saturation monitoring. A fluoroscopy room is located nearby for patients in need of temporary or permanent pacemaker implantations, pulmonary pressure catheter insertions, atrioventricular ablations and defibrillator implantations.

The non-invasive echocardiography laboratory is furnished with the newest stat-of-the-art equipment. The stress ECG laboratory provides fast diagnosis of coronary artery disease for ambulatory and hospitalized patients. Its equipment has recently been up-graded to the newest model on the market.

In the cardiac rehabilitation unit, patients are treated early after coronary bypass or valvular operations and after myocardial infarction or coronary angioplasty. Patients are monitored by an ECG telemetry system, which ascertains full coverage of the patient during the early stages of convalescence.

The Cardiac Rehabilitation Center