Dr. Itay Zoarets is an accomplished clinician with over 13 years of expertise in Surgery and trauma care. Currently the director of the trauma and acute care surgery at Assuta Ashdod university hospital. He has led the Israely humanitarina ais mission during the syrian civil war and participated in several humanitarian mission around the world. Dr. Zoarets excels in teaching and received awards and scholars from Tel Aviv University in Israel. He is the recipient of the Jerusalem award for health in 2024. Dr. zoarets established community preventive initiatives aimed to reduce trauma in adolscence and young drivers and introduced the "Stop the Bleed" initiative in Israel, training non-helath profesional civilians to give life saving first aid to bleeding wounded. Dr. zoarets integrates evidence-based practices and collaborative approaches to improve outcomes in trauma care, with empesize on geriatric trauma.
Assuta Ashdod Hospital is regional level 2 trauma center. The hospital was one of the three main hospitals that received casualties on the first day of the civilian massacre of October 7th and for ten weeks thereafter. The aim of this study is to share our experience and challenges as a new regional level 2 trauma center in a war zone.