Murat Sağlam, MD

Murat Sağlam, MD is a physician in the Emergency Service at Acibadem Ankara Hospital in Ankara, Turkey. He provides assessment and care for patients who require emergency medical attention, with evaluation guided by each patient’s immediate medical needs and clinical condition. Dr. Sağlam has more than 21 years in medicine.

Dr. Sağlam graduated from Gülhane Military Medical Academy Faculty of Medicine in 2005. He has been part of Acıbadem Healthcare Services since 2018, working within the Emergency Service, where care is organized around the urgency of a patient’s condition rather than a scheduled program of treatment.

Clinical focus

Dr. Sağlam’s work centers on the initial assessment and care of patients who present to the Emergency Service. In this setting, the first step is to establish how urgent a patient’s condition is and what immediate needs must be addressed. This involves taking the available history, examining the patient and reviewing any information that accompanies them, such as previous reports or medication lists, when these are at hand. The order in which patients are seen and the pace of evaluation are determined by clinical priority.

Once an initial assessment has been made, the next steps depend on the findings. Further investigations may be considered, and the involvement of other hospital departments may be appropriate when a patient’s condition calls for it. For patients who are visiting from abroad, the Emergency Service functions as a point of entry when a medical problem arises unexpectedly during their stay, and evaluation proceeds according to the same principle: the patient’s clinical condition and immediate medical needs guide the assessment. Dr. Sağlam approaches each presentation on its own terms, and no particular course of investigation or treatment is assumed in advance.

How Dr. Sağlam works with international patients

Dr. Sağlam consults in Turkish and English, and interpreters can be arranged for patients who speak other languages. For planned visits, the Acibadem international patient team coordinates the collection of prior reports and imaging, for example MRI, CT, X-ray or ultrasound reports, laboratory and pathology results, operative notes and discharge summaries, and arranges appointments and the hospital visit. A first consultation typically covers the patient’s history and symptoms, a review of existing imaging and previous treatments, a clinical examination and a discussion of the options. Because emergency care is, by its nature, provided in person and shaped by the situation at the time of presentation, the standard consultation format applies mainly to non-emergency contact. Video consultation for international patients is available; whether it is suitable in a given case depends on the nature of the patient’s situation and is considered on an individual basis. Patients who have had an emergency evaluation may also find it helpful to keep copies of the reports produced during their visit for their own records and for any physician they see afterward.