It provides a complete range of cardiovascular services, from outpatient cardiac diagnosis and follow - up to the most modern interventional procedures and cardiac surgery . It has two major Intensive Care Units with 14 beds . Three quarters of the patients are admitted as acute cases from the emergency room, while the other quarter are very difficult diagnostic and treatment problems, which come from other hospitals and intensive care units . Patients are treated with heart attacks, fainting, heart failure and unexplained shock . Few problems are beyond the scope of the unit .
Most patients go home, rehabilitated and well .
The Cardiology division has 18 beds in two wards . It has 2 large computerized catheterization laboratories , that undertake 3300 procedures per year, including 1300 percutaneous interventions . These include balloon angioplasty, rotablation, directional atherectomy, stent implantation and radiation therapy . Interventional procedures can be undertaken in complex patients with single or multiple narrowings of the coronary arteries, including complete blockages . Few patients are rejected for these interventions .