Department of Emergency Medicine
The Department of Emergency Medicine at Cedars-Sinai provides comprehensive, leading-edge emergency care to a diverse adult and pediatric population. Open 24 hours a day, seven days a week, the department handles more than 77,000 visits per year.
Cedars-Sinai's Emergency Department is designated by Los Angeles County as a Level 1 Trauma Center and a Pediatric Critical Care Center. The department is also designated as an ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction (STEMI) Receiving Center for its readiness to provide rapid intervention for heart attacks.
The complete range of emergency care and urgent care services is provided within a 26,000-square foot, state-of-the-art facility, which includes:
- 41 patient beds
- Pediatric critical care services
- Four trauma suites with overhead X-ray units
- Base station for paramedic operations
- Isolation capabilities
- On-site laboratory
- Self-contained imaging suites
- Dedicated CT scanner
- Satellite blood bank
- Decontamination facilities for biologic, nuclear or chemical contamination
Education
The Department of Emergency Medicine plays a key role in graduate medical education. House staff from the Departments of Medicine, Pediatrics, Psychiatry and Obstetrics and Gynecology rotate through the Emergency Department on an elective basis. In addition, medical residents from Kaiser Permanente, and emergency residents from UCLA/Olive View and LAC/USC rotate through the department. Residents see patients with a variety of medical conditions and are instructed by the Emergency Medicine faculty. Surgical residents participate in the Emergency Department as members of the trauma team.
The Department also serves as host to a quarterly All City Emergency Medicine conference for emergency medicine residents throughout the area and puts on an annual daylong Symposium for practicing physicians.
Leadership
James Loftus, MD
Co-Chair, Department of Emergency Medicine
Joel Geiderman, MD
Co-Chair, Department of Emergency Medicine
