Emergency Department Clinic

What is an Emergency Department?

The emergency department is a unit of hospitals and other health institutions that provides service to patients requiring emergency medical assistance located in an area that is easy to reach and where ambulances can approach the entrance. In emergency departments, first interventions are performed for ailments such as heart attack, trauma, burns, which can not wait enough to be examined by appointment system in other services.

Which Diseases Does the Emergency Department Treat?

Emergency departments (also called emergency service or emergency room) are medical facilities designed to respond quickly to medical emergencies and serious health problems. Emergency departments assess and treat life-threatening situations.

Here are some cases that are often seen in emergency departments:

Traumas: Injuries caused as a result of an accident, fall or other traumatic events.

Heart Attack and Other Cardiovascular Emergencies: Heart problems that occur with symptoms such as chest pain, shortness of breath, abnormal heartbeat.

Respiratory Problems: Respiratory problems such as severe asthma attack, respiratory failure, pneumonia.

Stroke (Paralysis): Stroke symptoms such as sudden paralysis, difficulty speaking, facial asymmetry.

Severe Bleeding: Severe blood loss due to injuries.

Poisoning: Cases of exposure to toxic substances.

Severe Infections: For example, conditions such as severe infections, appendicitis, kidney infection.

Severe Abdominal Pain: Serious conditions associated with abdominal pain, for example, puncture or inflammation of the internal organs of the abdomen.

Headache: Especially conditions such as severe and sudden headaches, migraines, head trauma.

Emergency departments are usually open 24 hours a day and assess and treat situations that require urgent medical attention. However, for milder health problems, it may often be more appropriate to contact primary care providers or appropriate specialties.

Liv Hospital Emergency Department

The correct and timely medical intervention performed by our specialist doctors in the Emergency Department of Liv Hospital connects patients to life. Your emergency level is determined immediately by the Liv Hospital emergency department physician and nurse, who greets you the moment you enter the door, and medical intervention begins without wasting time. Then, diagnosis, follow-up and treatment are carried out in a multidisciplinary manner with all kinds of laboratory and advanced imaging support in the process carried out by the relevant specialist physician.

Liv Hospital Emergency Department is designed according to rapid intervention and works continuously with observation departments with equipment that can turn into an intensive care unit if necessary, where patient privacy and comfort are also considered. With its superior technology, expert staff and satisfaction-oriented working style, Liv Hospital Emergency Department is at your service 24/7.

24/7 Interpreter Service at Liv Hospital

Liv Hospital's emergency department clinic provides continuous interpreter services for patients coming from foreign countries, even in unplanned situations. You don't need to worry about facing difficulties due to not knowing Turkish. Thanks to the translation service available in languages such as English, French, Russian, German, and Arabic we provide, you can receive emergency care that you will remember quite good without any issues.