The Department of Emergency Medicine at Sheikh Shakhbout Medical City (SSMC) Abu Dhabi employs a multidisciplinary team of consultants who work collaboratively using world-class facilities and state-of-the-art medical equipment to best care for patients.
SSMC serves as the region’s centre for excellence in health care, offering a comprehensive and interdisciplinary approach to emergency care, lending us the ability to treat the most critical and complex of cases. Our Emergency Medicine Department utilises our physicians from other medical and surgical specialties who are on call for consultation should the need arise, to best aid in determining the safest, most appropriate plan of care while the patient is in the emergency room.
Our emergency physicians specialise in emergency resuscitation, primary care and prehospital care. Our collaborative approach to personalised care means our teams combine their expertise to treat all acute and urgent medical and surgical conditions that require immediate intervention. Moreover, our department encompasses care involving the acute care of internal medical and surgical conditions in addition to providing episodic primary care to patients during off-hours and those who do not have primary care providers.
Operating at the forefront of resuscitation care in the UAE, SSMC is Abu Dhabi's only burn and trauma centre, providing patients with all emergency specialities required to build a solid, world-class support system for the Abu Dhabi community and beyond.
Offering a comprehensive, high quality continuum of care, our Emergency Medicine Department is equipped with the capability to treat unique cases covering palliative care, sports medicine, disaster medicine, medical toxicology, aerospace medicine, prehospital medicine, critical care medicine and transport.
Care of the Critically Ill Surgical Patient (CCrISP) is a two-day, interactive course, which includes mandatory, pre-course e-learning. It covers the practical skills and knowledge that health care professionals need to effectively care for surgical patients, including those who are deteriorating or at risk of doing so.