About the Department
The Department of Anesthesiology, directed by Dr. Shai Fein provides anesthesiology services for the entire hospital. This comprises 22 operating rooms, the recovery room, the acute pain service, the pain clinic, a day surgery center, the pre-anesthetic clinic, and also invasive radiology, neuro-radiology, CT, MRI, cardiology and gastroenterology services. Members of the staff performs more than 25,000 anesthetics a year, including more than 1,000 cardiac anesthesia, 800 neuro-anesthesia, more than 200 robot-assisted surgeries and more than 350 organ transplantations. More than 46000 epidurals are performed for labor per year. There are more than 7,500 annual visits to the pain clinic and over 10,000 visits to the pre-anesthetic clinic. The department runs an extensive pain management program on an in-hospital and day-care basis, which includes widespread use of invasive anesthetic techniques. Furthermore, the staff is active in research and there is a laboratory of experimental anesthesiology within the department. The staff is a national leader in its teaching capabilities, being active in the academic course of medical an nursing students, paramedic courses, medical interns' teaching, anesthesia residents from other hospital, and fellow physicians who have anesthesia rotations.
UNITS OF EXPERTISE
- Post Anesthesia Care Unit: headed by Dr. Nadav Sheffy
- Pain Management Unit: headed by Dr. Shiri Shkolnik
- Cardiac Anesthesia Unit: headed by Dr. Rossana Arnobitsky
- Obstetrics and Gynecology Anesthesia Unit: headed by Dr. Sharon Zinger-Orbach
- Transplant Anesthesia Service: headed by Dr. Andrei Khinchuk.
