In 2010, the emergency room treated over 55 000 patients, half of which were subsequently treated as in-patients in our clinics. The hospital is structured to enable easy and immediate access to all medical services. Doctors from all disciplines work either directly in the ER or are on-call, making them available around the clock to provide the necessary care of injured or acutely ill patients.

The aim of the entire hospital is to be properly equipped for emergency patients of every kind, so we take great care in guaranteeing the best possible quality in the surgical and orthopaedic emergency rooms.

This includes transport helicopters for intensive care patients, and ambulances operated by fire fighters which come to patients’ urgently needed aid, always accompanied by a qualified doctor in the vehicle, whether from the Surgery, Orthopedics, Anaesthesiology, Intensive Care and Pain Therapy or Internal Medicine Clinics.

The rescue helicopter lands on the hospital roof. From here there are separate entrances to the central Emergency Room and to the Center for Severe Burn Injuries with plastic surgery.

In 2010 alone, over 3 800 patients were brought to the ukb in one of these emergency vehicles. 55 000 patients were treated in the Emergency Room in 2010. One out of two patients who is treated as an in-patient at the ukb found his or her way there through the ER.

The ER has been conveniently designed to provide the fastest recourse between the spiral-computertomograph and the trauma room, changing the way we follow badly injured patients. So doing a Spiral-CT to evaluate the injured body cavities of polytrauma patients after the initial clinical examination and ultrasound diagnostic has become a standard at the Unfallkrankenhaus Berlin Emergency Room.