The Gemelli Emergency Room, with over 200 admissions every day, responds to the emergency and urgent needs of an area of more than 1.5 million people. Here they can find a service that is active 24 hours a day thanks to a team made up of four emergency physicians, an orthopedist, a pediatrician, a gynecologist and two radiologists. In addition, neurological, neurosurgical and ENT (ear, nose and throat) consultants are available on an on-going basis, as well as – for 12 hours during the day – ophthalmological consultants.
At the Emergency Room, first aid treatment and surgery is provided to emergency and urgent cases, necessary procedures to resuscitate and stabilize a patient in critical conditions are carried out and tests needed to assess the severity of the case are taken.
In 2015, the service was completely reorganized, going beyond the traditional concept of the exam room. The new organizational and architectural model was created according to the principle of treatment intensity, that allows to “separate” patients who require more intensive treatments than others, thus creating an environment of greater assurance and comfort.
The Gemelli Emergency Room – equipped with a heliport open 24 hours a day, which allows the bigger trauma and medical-surgical emergencies to be transported by helicopter – is a second level DEA (Emergency and Registration Department) and is a point of reference for 7 first level DEA and 6 assistance facilities.
The Bed Manager, implemented by D.G.R. n. 821/2009, is Dr. Gennaro Capalbo, Head of Bed Management.
Furthermore, the Poison Control Center a national point of reference, is open 24 hours a day.
