Accident and Emergency
Changi General Hospital’s Accident and Emergency (A&E) department provides 24-hour service for trauma and non-trauma surgical and medical emergencies. We have a multi-disciplinary trauma team to provide one-stop quality care, comprising trauma surgeons, orthopaedic surgeons, neurosurgeons, psychiatrists, physiotherapists, medical social workers, pharmacists and nurses.
The A&E is supported by 24-hour X-ray and laboratory services and advanced technologies. We are the first hospital in the world to pilot the Mobile Clinical Assistant in an A&E environment. This wireless and highly portable technology enables doctors and nurses to better care for their patients and more effectively manage the hectic workflow in the fast-paced A&E.
Our A&E department handles the following types of emergencies:
- Acute surgical conditions (e.g. acute abdomen, bleeding gastrointestinal tract)
- Medical emergencies (heart attack, stroke, severe asthma, pneumonia, shock, sepsis, etc.)
- Orthopaedic injury
- Sports injuries
- Trauma (minor/major), head injury and fracture
- Paediatric emergencies
- Toxicology / poisoning
- Acute ENT & eye emergencies
- Industrial accidents
