Emergency Medicine

The Emergency Medicine Department of Guangdong Second Provincial General Hospital was founded in 1997 and is a Guangdong key clinical specialty. Its clinical area is approximately 1,500 m² and comprises consultation, resuscitation, observation and inpatient areas. The resuscitation room has two beds with ventilators, monitors, bedside biochemistry, an electronic chest-compression device, gastric lavage device, defibrillator, glucose meter, ECG, syringe and infusion pumps. The observation room has ten beds; the ward has two monitored and ten general beds. The infusion room has 80 chairs, and consultation rooms include internal medicine, surgery and pediatrics. The emergency pathway has dedicated registration, payment, pharmacy, laboratory, X-ray, ultrasound, injection, procedure, dressing and operating rooms. The department reports over 60 medical and nursing staff, including 18 physicians and 43 nurses, and seven ambulances, mostly Mercedes-Benz, with liquid oxygen, information transmission and emergency medicines and equipment. Two frontline 120 ambulances operate 24 hours; five secondary ambulances serve within and outside the province. The team includes one doctorate and five master's degree holders. Department leader Ye Zebing is a medical doctor with emergency and critical-care experience, deputy head of the disaster medicine group of the Chinese Medical Association emergency medicine branch and a youth committee member of its disaster medicine branch. Honors include a second-class merit for SARS response, Guangdong flood-rescue advanced individual and national health emergency advanced individual. As a provincial emergency response hospital, the hospital treats public-health emergencies and reports strengthening emergency capacity through systems and training. It states that during the 2003 SARS outbreak the department treated confirmed and suspected patients and no medical staff became infected. Guangzhou recognized it as an exemplary SARS-response team; later honors included Guangdong women's model post and March 8 Red Flag collective. Location: first floor, Building 1. Enquiries: 020-89168120.