Emergency ICU

The Department of Emergency Critical Care Medicine was established in September 2013. It currently has 10 ICU beds, has built an independent negative-pressure ward, and has 2 critical care beds. It possesses modern emergency medical equipment such as: anti-decubitus air-mattress beds, Philips advanced life monitors, a central monitoring station, imported advanced ventilators such as Bird/Drager and others, high-flow oxygen therapy devices, noninvasive ventilators, transport ventilators, a bedside fiberoptic bronchoscope, end-tidal carbon dioxide monitors, PICCO, multichannel micro-infusion pumps, enteral nutrition feeding pumps, electrocardiographs, defibrillators, blood purification machines, electric sputum-clearance machines, and other advanced equipment; it can perform continuous noninvasive/invasive blood pressure monitoring, continuous central venous pressure monitoring, bedside hemodynamic monitoring, multimodal ventilator-assisted ventilation therapy, end-tidal carbon dioxide monitoring, and precise digitally controlled treatment, and is also equipped with auxiliary departments including emergency laboratory testing (including COPT), emergency ultrasound (including rapid bedside ultrasound examination), emergency radiology (including bedside radiography), and critical care rehabilitation, meeting the needs for treating critically ill patients.

There are currently nearly 36 medical and nursing staff members, including 12 emergency critical care specialist physicians, 1 with a senior professional title, 2 with associate senior professional titles, and 5 with intermediate professional titles; all are postgraduate graduates and hold master's degrees or above.

The Department of Acute Critical Care Medicine's main function is to provide 24-hour treatment for patients with acute, critical, and severe conditions; to provide services and support for the treatment of critically ill patients in all relevant departments of the hospital and the medical alliance; and to provide timely and accurate diagnosis and treatment for cardiac arrest, cardiopulmonary resuscitation, malignant arrhythmias, severe heart failure, acute myocardial infarction, multiple trauma, acute abdomen, poisoning by various pesticides such as organophosphorus compounds and paraquat, poisoning by various drugs, poisonous mushroom poisoning, and so on. It has particularly strong response capabilities for sudden public health events (collective food poisoning, outbreaks of respiratory infectious diseases, and multiple trauma caused by catastrophic accidents). The green channel remains open 24 hours a day; more than 1,000 patients are admitted each year, and many patients with severe, complex acute and critical illnesses have been successfully treated.

In teaching, the department undertakes each year such educational work as theoretical and clinical skills training for undergraduates, postgraduate students, standardized training residents, and others.

In research, the department conducts basic and clinical research focusing mainly on critical illness, poisoning, and acute cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases; undertakes or participates in multiple national- and provincial-/municipal-level scientific research projects; and has carried out valuable research and exploration in cardiopulmonary-cerebral resuscitation, brain protection, sepsis, inflammation regulation, critical cardiac care, CRRT, critical care nutrition, critical care immunology, critical care rehabilitation, and other areas. It has published multiple medical papers and monographs and applied for multiple national patents.

The Department of Emergency Critical Care Medicine is striding forward toward the goal of becoming first-class within the city, well-known within the province, and benchmarking itself against advanced ICUs in China. In the new historical period, it remains true to its original aspiration, keeps its mission in mind, tackles difficult challenges, and forges ahead; it continuously improves and grows stronger, striving to contribute its wisdom and strength to the high-quality development of the Second Affiliated Hospital of Dalian Medical University.