Emergency Department, Critical Care Medicine Department (ICU)

Introduction to the Department of Emergency Medicine and Critical Care Medicine (Emergency ICU), Nanqiaosi Campus of Chongqing Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine The Department of Emergency Medicine and Critical Care Medicine (Emergency ICU) of the Nanqiaosi Campus of Chongqing Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine is a department with an excellent tradition and a rich cultural heritage, and has consistently adhered to the development approach of “giving equal importance to traditional Chinese and Western medicine, and pursuing inheritance and innovation”. It carries forward the academic thinking on TCM emergency and critical illness of senior TCM physician Huang Xingyuan, integrates advanced critical-care concepts from modern medicine, and continuously develops and innovates. The department is currently a National Advantageous Specialty in Traditional Chinese Medicine, a Chongqing Municipal Key Clinical Specialty (Critical Care Medicine), a Chongqing Municipal Key Clinical Specialty (Emergency Medicine), and the Chongqing Municipal Quality Control Center for TCM Emergency Medicine, serves as the chairing institution of the Critical Care Specialized Committee of the Chongqing Society of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine, and is a member institution of China's CCUSG and the Chongqing ECMO Alliance. In the 2022 ranking of specialties in general hospitals of traditional Chinese medicine, our department ranked 16th nationwide, placing it in the first tier. It has received honors including the National “Women's Civilized Post”, Chongqing Youth Civilization Unit, Chongqing Municipal “March 8 Red-Flag Collective”, and an Advanced Primary-Level Party Branch of the Chongqing Municipal Health Commission. The department has 6 resuscitation beds, 7 observation beds, and 16 intensive care beds, handles more than 45,000 emergency visits per year, provides prehospital emergency care to more than 3500 people per year, and admits more than 650 critically ill patients to the ICU per year. It currently has 94 medical and nursing staff, including 20 physicians and 74 nurses. There are 3 doctorate holders, 13 master's degree holders, 1 holder of a senior professional title, 5 holders of associate senior titles, 67 holders of intermediate professional titles, 2 inheritors of the academic experience of national-level senior TCM experts, and 2 inheritors of the academic expertise of Chongqing TCM experts. The department also has a complete 120 prehospital command system and three major treatment centers for chest pain, stroke, and trauma, specializes in the integrated TCM and Western medicine treatment of emergency and critical illnesses, is actively developing five subspecialties, namely critical care rehabilitation, critical care circulation, critical care respiratory medicine, critical care infection, and critical care nutrition, focuses on three TCM diseases of particular strength, namely jue-tuo syndrome, dyspnea syndrome, and fever, and offers more than 20 distinctive TCM techniques, including acupuncture, acupoint bloodletting, and gua sha. In addition, the department has complete systems and equipment required for emergency and critical care, comprehensively carries out emergency and critical care technologies such as hemodynamic monitoring, respiratory mechanics monitoring and mechanical ventilation, blood purification, critical care ultrasonography, and ECMO, and its comprehensive treatment capability for critically ill patients has reached a leading level within the TCM system. Department Director Luo Zhenchun is a reserve candidate for the third cohort of Chongqing Municipal Academic and Technical Leaders (Emergency Medicine). Over the past three years, under the leadership of the department director, the department has achieved coordinated development in clinical care, teaching, and research, and over the past five years, it has undertaken nearly 30-plus research projects, achieving full coverage of national-level, provincial/ministerial-level, departmental/bureau-level, and hospital (university)-level projects, including 1 National Natural Science Foundation of China (Youth) project, 8 provincial/ministerial-level projects, and 2 departmental/bureau-level projects, and has published more than 40 high-quality papers, including 16 SCI papers. It also actively undertakes teaching assignments, including large-class lectures for medical-school undergraduates, clinical internships, standardized resident-training instruction, graduate education, and advanced-training student education. It has led 1 teaching-reform project and published 3 teaching-reform papers.