Critical Care Medicine (ICU)

The Department of Critical Care Medicine of Hangzhou First People’s Hospital was established in 2003 and currently has three campuses: 44 beds at Hubin, 33 at Chengbei, and 58 at Chengdong. It is the largest critical care medicine department among municipal hospitals. As a comprehensive department, it admits approximately 2,000 critically ill patients annually, covering critically ill patients from internal medicine, surgery, obstetrics and gynecology, and other disciplines, such as acute myocardial infarction, fulminant myocarditis, various types of shock, severe pneumonia, respiratory failure, stroke, multiple trauma, severe pancreatitis, sepsis, and perioperative support for major surgeries. It is proficient in current mainstream monitoring and treatment technologies in China and internationally, including ECMO, critical care ultrasonography, multimodal brain monitoring, invasive and noninvasive hemodynamic monitoring with PiCCO/PAC, fiberoptic bronchoscopy, respiratory support, CRRT, and artificial liver support. Monitoring and treatment of critically ill cardiac and neurological patients are the department’s specialties.