The cardiology unit at Mt. Scopus serves the population living in the northern and eastern parts of greater Jerusalem, and villages in the Judean hills, Jordan valley and near the Dead Sea. It includes an intensive coronary care unit, an echocardiography and stress ECG laboratory, as well as a cardiac rehabilitation unit.
The Intensive Coronary Care Unit sees around 900 patients annually who are hospitalized for an average of 3.5 days. The 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 ICCU has eight fully monitored beds, two of which are designated for intensive medical emergencies such as septic shock or respiratory failure. The remaining six are for coronary emergencies. Bedside monitors allow continuous ECG, arterial and pulmonary pressure, and 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 Cardiology Unit provides consultation services by telephone and ECG facsimile, allowing rapid diagnosis and work-up of patients.
The Echocardiography Laboratory is furnished with state-of-the-art equipment, as is the Stress ECG Laboratory, which enables a fast diagnosis of coronary artery disease for ambulatory and hospitalized patients.
In The Cardiac Rehabilitation Center, patients are treated after coronary bypass or valvular operations, myocardial infarction or coronary angioplasty. Patients are monitored by an ECG telemetry system that assures full patient coverage during the early stages of convalescence.
Hadassah - Mt. Scopus is both an university hospital and a community hospital, and works closely with local family physicians.