King Saud Medical Complex

King Saud Medical City is a hospital in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. It is a tertiary care center for medicine and surgery especially spinal and neurosurgery. It is 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. KSMC's ER department is one of the busiest in the country.Since a few years KSMC has upgraded its status to a medical city (King Saud Medical City)A new chapter has been added to the KSMC story since 1st January 2016. A Trauma Unit has been started which caters to all trauma cases which have been brought directly to KSMC or those being referred to KSMC for further management coming from all corners of the Kingdom, on many occasions by air ambulance. Upon activation the Trauma Unit is available at the bed side of the patient in the ER Resuscitation area within 15 minutes and the reception and resuscitation is begun along with the ER doctors. The Trauma Unit is slowly shaping itself into a Level 1 Trauma Center with its own tower (building), dedicated ER, Resuscitation area, ICU and wards. At this point, the Trauma Unit is evolving having served 92 patients since inception (42 days, 1st Jan 2016 to 12th Feb 2016). The trauma ICU is up to its full capacity and patients have started overflowing to the Tower ICU.