King Saud Medical Complex
King Saud Medical City (KSMC) is a hospital in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. It is a tertiary care center for medicine and surgery especially Trauma surgery, Orthopedic and Neurosurgery . It is an international recognized center for training in medicine and surgery. It has 1500 beds of which 180 beds are in the intensive-care unit beds. By virtue of the bed capacity and patient load, KSMC is by far the largest hospital of Saudi Arabia.
| King Saud Medical City مدينة الملك سعود الطبية | |
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| Ministry of Health | |
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| Geography | |
| Location | Riyadh, Saudi Arabia |
| Coordinates | |
| Organisation | |
| Funding | Governmental |
| Type | Public |
| Affiliated university | - King Saud University - Imam Muhammad bin Saud Islamic University - Princess Nora bint Abdul Rahman University - Dar Al Uloom University |
| Services | |
| Standards | Accreditation from International Joint Commission (JCI) obtained on 22 Jan 2013 |
| Emergency department | Yes |
| Beds | 1500 |
| History | |
| Opened | 13 Oct 1956 |
| Links | |
| Website | www |
| Lists | Hospitals in Saudi Arabia |
Description
The Emergency Department of KSMC is one of the busiest in the Kingdom. Since January 2016, a dedicated trauma unit is managing all polytrauma cases which have been brought directly or referred to KSMC for further management from all over the Kingdom. In April 2019, the Trauma Surgery department was upgraded to the Trauma Center. Dr. Sharfuddin Chowdhury, a South African Trained Trauma Surgeon, was appointed as the first Director of this Center. Under his leadership, the KSMC Trauma Center is shaping itself as an internationally accredited Level 1 Trauma Center. The center is managing all complex head, face, chest, abdomen, pelvis, orthopedic, and spinal injuries. Since September 2017, the KSMC Trauma Registry recruited over 6000 patients. Besides state of the art Trauma Service, the Center also runs undergraduate, postgraduate, fellowship training, and Trauma research.
See also
- List of hospitals in Saudi Arabia
- List of things named after Saudi Kings
- King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre
References
Sources
- Deena M. Barakah, and Sami S. Alwakeel, “Impact of CPOE on Physicians and Dentists' Work Performance at King Saud Medical Complex Hospital: A Case Study” Proceedings of the World Congress on Engineering and Computer Science 2009 Vol. I, WCECS 2009, October 20–22, 2009, San Francisco, USA pp296–298
- Deena M. Barakah, and Ali Al Kinani, “RFID Applications in Saudi Hospitals: A Case Study” Proceedings of 12th IBIMA conference on Creating Global Economies through Innovation and Knowledge Management, June 29–30, 2009, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia pp1670–1672.
- Saddik, B.;Barakah, D.M. ;Aldosari, B., “A Study of PDA and Smartphone Adoption Rates at King Saud Medical City Hospitals” , Proceedings of the 6th IEEE International Symposium on Medical Information and Communication Technology,La Jolla, USA, 25–29 March 2012
- Deena M Barakah, Ayman M Alrobia, Sami Alwakeel . “ Strategic Plan and Development Projects for Modern Health Clinical Information Systems at King Saud Medical City” , International Journal of Information and Electronics Engineering, Vol. 4, No. 4, July 2014, PP 317–324
- D M Barakah & Mohammad S. Al Hasan, Sami Alwakeel, “Information Technology Adoption and Literacy in Health Care Practice: A Case Study” International Conference on Software & Information Systems (ICSIS 2015), May 9–10, 2015.. Also published in Journal of Advances in Information Technology Vol. 6, No. 1, February 2015
- D M Barakah & Manal M. Shira, Sami Alwakeel, “Information Technologies Adoption in Medical Education, Research and Advancement Clinical Treatment at King Saud Medical City” International Conference on Software & Information Systems (ICSIS 2015), May 9–10, 2015. Also published in the Journal of Advances in Information Technology Vol. 6, No. 2, May 2015
- D M Barakah, “Integrating Dental Working Experience in Development of a Dental Clinic Database System for a General Tertiary Hospital” , 2016 International Conference on Computational Science and Computational Intelligence (CSCI'16); Health Informatics and Medical Systems Symposium. December 15–17, 2016, Las Vegas, USA
- Deena M. Barakah, Sami Alwakeel and Manal Shira, “The Impact of Advanced E-Clinical Systems and IT-based Technologies on Medical Practice at Saudi Tertiary Hospitals” , 2017 IEEE International Conference on Power, Control, Signals and Instrumentation Engineering (ICPCSI). 21 Sep - 22 Sep 2017, Chennai, India
- Barakah, Deena M. ; Haifa M. A. Barakah; Reem S. Alwakeel ; “A Study of Evidence-Based Practice Level, Knowledge and Implementation amongst Health Care Practitioners in Riyadh City Hospitals’; Proceedings of the 2018 International Conference on Health Informatics & Medical Systems (HIMS'18), July28-2 August 2018, Las Vegas USA
- Reem Sami Alwakeel; Mohammed Awawdeh; Deena Mahmoud Barakah “Measurement accuracy of space analysis by smart phone applications for orthodontic purposes: a comparison study with conventional plaster dental models”; International Journal of Applied Dental Sciences; Vol.4, No,3: 2018; PP 314–322
Books and book chapters
- Manal Shira, Noura Aljohani, Deena Barakah, Faiza Alwaeel ; دليلك للتعامل مع طفل التوحد في عيادة الاسنان , your Guide for handling Autistic child at Dental Clinic, 2014 ISBN No. 978-603-01-6567-4 King Fahd National library.
- D M Barakah & M. Ammad-uddin, A chapter titled : “ A Virtual Doctor Server Based BAN Architecture for Health care service” in the book titled “ Handbook of Medical and Healthcare Technologies “ editors : Prof. Borko Furht; Agarwal, Ankur; Springer publishing company, November 30, 2013. ISBN 978-1-4614-8495-0
- A paper on the Book : Health Informatics & Medical Systems :The 2018 WorldComp International Conference Proceedings ; Editor(s): Hamid R. Arabnia, Leonidas Deligiannidis, Fernando G. Tinetti, Quoc-Nam Tran ; CSREA PRESS, USA ; December 31, 2018. ISBN 978-1601324795