Emergency Medicine — Honglou Campus

The Emergency Department of Dongguan People's Hospital integrates prehospital emergency care, in-hospital emergency care, critical care monitoring and treatment, and a general inpatient ward. Its clinical service combines patient care, teaching and research.

The department is on the left side of the main hospital's outpatient building. It occupies 2 floors with a total floor area of nearly 4,000 square metres. Level 1 (the ground floor) has a waiting area; a service area with a nurses' station, emergency registration and payment office, and emergency pharmacy; a treatment area with emergency internal medicine, surgery and paediatric consultation rooms, a resuscitation room, operating room, wound debridement room and treatment room; and an observation area. Level 2 houses the general inpatient ward, including an emergency intensive care unit (EICU) with 6 beds and 40 general beds. The department provides emergency care, emergency laboratory tests, X-rays, electrocardiography, ultrasound and CT examinations 24 hours a day. Equipment includes imported defibrillator-pacemaker monitors, cardiac monitors, ventilators, fibreoptic bronchoscopes, gastric lavage machines and electrocardiographs. It provides comprehensive prehospital and in-hospital emergency care, meeting the needs of acutely and critically ill patients for emergency treatment and admission at any time, with every effort to save lives.

The Honglou Campus Emergency Department has a dedicated emergency care team of more than 90 medical and nursing staff, including 7 with senior professional grades, 20 with intermediate grades and 2 with master's-level postgraduate qualifications. Annual emergency visits exceed 150,000. The team follows a patient-centred approach focused on medical quality and safety and maintains rapid access to life-saving care.

1. Prehospital emergency care The department has 2 monitoring-equipped ambulances carrying oxygen, defibrillator-pacemaker monitors, electrocardiographs, portable ventilators, cardiopulmonary resuscitation pumps and other emergency equipment and medicines. After receiving a dispatch order from the 120 emergency centre, an ambulance can depart within 4 minutes to provide immediate on-site treatment and rapid, safe transport.

2. In-hospital emergency consultations Emergency internal medicine, surgery and paediatric services operate 24 hours a day, supported by an established emergency management system and a rapid-access emergency pathway. The department follows first-contact physician responsibility, urgent consultation and role-specific responsibility systems to provide patient-centred, quality care.

3. In-hospital resuscitation It provides emergency treatment for major trauma, high fever with convulsions, respiratory and cardiac arrest, heart failure, respiratory failure, malignant arrhythmias, shock, poisoning, and cardiovascular and cerebrovascular emergencies. Specialist consultations are rapidly organised, with emergency surgery and inpatient treatment when required.

4. Disaster response The department actively conducts education, training and drills in disaster emergency knowledge and skills, building an efficient emergency medical team capable of responding to a range of public emergencies.

5. General inpatient ward The EICU provides further advanced life support for acutely and critically ill patients. Prompt inpatient treatment is available for poisoning, snake and insect bites, and complex illnesses with an initially unclear cause. There are 10 reserve beds available at any time to support the response to public health emergencies.

Address: 78 South Wandao Road, Wanjiang Subdistrict, Dongguan. Level 1 telephone numbers: 28636290 (nurses' station); 28636291 (medical and nursing office). Level 2 general ward: 28636521 (nurses' station); 28636519 (physicians' office).