Cardiac Intensive Care Department

The Department of Cardiac Critical Care of the Second People's Hospital of Guangdong Province provides a comprehensive treatment platform for patients with acute and critical cardiovascular conditions, fully achieving efficient coordination between prehospital and in-hospital emergency treatment of acute and critical cardiovascular conditions. It can provide treatment and/or interventional treatment for acute and critical cardiac conditions such as acute coronary syndrome (unstable angina, acute myocardial infarction), malignant heart failure, malignant arrhythmia, pulmonary embolism, and cardiogenic shock, as well as acute and critical cardiovascular conditions involving or complicated by other systemic diseases in patients with severe cardiac conditions requiring monitoring and treatment. In addition to conventional critical care diagnostic and treatment methods such as mechanical ventilation, bedside fiberoptic bronchoscopy treatment, and temporary cardiac pacing, it can provide patients with advanced life-support treatments such as extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO), continuous renal replacement therapy (CRRT), and intra-aortic balloon pump (IABP). The department currently has 11 doctors (including 1 postdoctoral fellow, 4 postdoctoral fellows at the postdoctoral station, 4 doctors with doctoral degrees, and 1 in-service doctoral candidate), 1 Guangdong Province Outstanding Young Medical Talent, and 1 Guangdong Province Top 100 Doctoral and Postdoctoral Innovation Figure. It undertakes 4 national-level scientific research projects, 5 provincial-level scientific research projects, 3 municipal-level scientific research projects, 1 key project under the Guangdong-Gansu hospital pairing assistance program, and 5 district-level scientific research projects; it has participated in the publication of dozens of SCI papers and has been granted 3 utility model patents.