Internal Medicine — Rotation Detail
Hematology at Alsabah Hospital
Tutors
Rotation Coordinator
MD, KBH
MBBCh, MRCP(UK), FRCPath(Haematology), Kuwait Board of Hematology
Clinical Hematology Unit Rotation
Residents should report to the Hematology Doctors' Office (Room 8 in Medical OPD) on their first day of the rotation. They will be provided with a personalized schedule detailing their duties on each day of the rotation with their assigned tutor as well as teaching sessions
Our Unit structure:
- Our service provides inpatient service, day care service, external consultations,
and outpatient service.
- The team responsible for inpatient service is composed of a specialist, a senior
registrar, and 2 registrars. The team is responsible for following up the medical
consultations coming from the medical & surgical wards, ICU, and CCU.
- The day care team is composed of a specialist & a registrar. The team is
responsible for following up thalassemia patients coming regularly for blood
transfusions.
- Around 100 thalassemia patients are coming to hematology day care regularly
every 2-4 weeks for blood transfusions.
- Daily rounds are done to follow thalassemia patients: to ensure the safety of
blood transfusions, to follow laboratory & radiological investigations, and to
adjust their iron-chelation therapy & other medications.
- Other rare bone marrow diseases who require regular blood transfusions are
also receiving their blood transfusions in the hematology day care.
- Some Hemophilia patients are seen in hematology day care to receive their
clotting factor concentrate.
- Hematology day care also offers IV iron treatment to IDA patients.
- External consultations team is composed of 2 specialists & 2 senior registrars.
The team covers the consultations coming from all hospitals & centers of Alsabah
medical area.
- Outpatient service: involves daily clinics run by senior registrar level and above.
- Team meetings to review consultations and challenging cases and teaching
sessions are held on a weekly basis.