The teams of the Cardiology Section include physicians,
nurses, technicians, and other skilled and highly experienced staff. They are
responsible for providing professional health care and quality service and
diagnosis of heart disease using sophisticated and advanced equipment in the
frameworks of the wards and clinics of the Section.
Wards of the Section:
- Department of Cardiac Intensive Care and Cardiac
Intermediate
- Intensive Care
Units of the Section:
- Cardiac Catheterization
- Electrophysiology and Pacemakers
- Pediatric Cardiology
Ambulatory services and
clinics:
- General Cardiology Clinic
- Pre-catheterization Clinic
- Preventive Cardiology Clinic and Lipid Treatment
- Heart Failure Clinic
- Arrhythmia and Pacemaker Clinic
- Heart Valve Clinic
- Stress tests
- Echocardiography (including tranesophageal
echocardiography and stress echocardiography)
- Holter tests
- Tilt Test
- Heart Mapping at the Isotopes Institute
- CT scans and MRI tests Imaging Institute
Academic Activity
Teaching Medical Residents:
Senior physicians in the
Cardiology Section teach cardiology residents and doctors from other specialties
who are doing rotations in the Division.
Specialized, tailored programs are
built for the whole period of the residency.
This framework includes visits
to hospital units, daily staff meetings, guided instruction on chapters of text
books, various rotations in the cardiology, and participation in seminars and
conferences.
Teaching Students:
The Cardiology Section teaches
medical students, nursing students and students of Emergency Medicine
(paramedics) at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU), as well as medical
students from the joint BGU Medical School for International Health in
collaboration with Columbia University Medical Center.
Research
The physicians of the
Cardiology Section are engaged in clinical and basic research, as well as in the
supervision of medical students completing work for MD and other
degrees.
