The Department of Emergency Medicine (DEM) at AUBMC is one of the busiest Emergency Departments (ED) in Lebanon seeing an annual volume of approximately 56,000 patients. ED physicians, nursing, and ancillary staff are highly experienced and trained in emergency medical care and provide timely, high quality care to patients with acute illnesses or injuries. The ED has full-time, round-the-clock, attending level physician coverage by physicians trained in the treatment of all acute care illnesses from medical and surgical cases to pediatric and obstetrics acute care. Our core faculty are all Emergency Medicine trained/American Board of Emergency Medicine certified physicians and our nursing team includes over 84 personnel dedicated to ensure safe and high quality care.
With fourty-three beds, three trauma bays, extensive monitoring capacity, available bedside ultrasonography, dedicated imaging room, advanced airway equipment and real-time electronic tracking capacity, our ED is equipped to handle the most critical cases.
Clinical Services
Pediatric service: The AUBMC Emergency Department is the only ED in Lebanon that offers specialized Pediatric Emergency Medicine services. Staffed with 24/7 on site specialists our ED is ready to care for all pediatric emergencies from broken bones to pneumonias. Our dedicated team of physicians and nurses have created a child friendly environment, catering to your child or adolescent’s every need. We provide advanced pain management, evidence-based-standardized care and are always prepared to offer pediatric sub-specialist consults.
- Toxicology service: The ED offers round the clock acute toxicology care through on-site Emergency Medicine specialized faculty and additional Tele-medical expert support from Emory University Clinical Toxicologists.
- Trauma service: The ED, in collaboration with the Surgery Department, offers a comprehensive trauma service to complex trauma patients through an activation system that brings together a multi-disciplinary team of specialists trained in Acute Trauma Life Support and best-practice trauma care.
- Acute Heart Service: The ED, in collaboration with Cardiology Division, offers state of the art approach to patients presenting with acute heart attacks following evidence-based protocols, achieving door-to-balloon times comparable to the top heart centers globally.
- Stroke: The ED, in collaboration with Neurology, Radiology, and Laboratory Departments, offers the best in multi-disciplinary, timely care to acute stroke patients through standardized, evidence-based protocols that deliver clot-busting agents to eligible patients.
- Other services: The ED embraces best practices, and follows protocols and pathways to standardize the care of patients presenting with the most common diseases from acute medical emergencies, to surgical, pediatrics and obstetric acute care.