Emergency Medicine

The Department of Emergency Medicine has a (cardiopulmonary) resuscitation room, a resuscitation room, an emergency operating room, an emergency intensive care unit (EICU), an observation ward, emergency registration and billing services, a pharmacy, and an emergency laboratory. The department has strong overall technical capabilities and currently has 56 medical and nursing staff members. There are 15 physicians, including 5 with senior professional titles, 8 attending physicians, and 2 resident physicians; among them, 2 have doctoral qualifications (1 currently enrolled) and 7 have master's degrees. The nursing team has 42 members, including 2 associate chief nurses, 8 charge nurses, and 32 nurses. The department's overall professional quality is high; each member has his or her own academic specialty and extensive resuscitation experience, and all can independently perform endotracheal intubation, operate and apply invasive and non-invasive ventilators, provide emergency electrical therapy, perform invasive vital-sign monitoring and analysis, and carry out other basic emergency technical skills. The department undertakes cardiopulmonary resuscitation for patients with respiratory and cardiac arrest and has a high level of expertise in resuscitating critically ill patients with acute poisoning, traffic accidents, trauma, cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, acute respiratory-system diseases, and other critical conditions. After more than 30 years of development, the department has expanded considerably, its medical technology is at an advanced level within the province, and its emergency services cover Hangzhou's urban area and all suburban counties. It has gradually established cardiopulmonary-cerebral resuscitation, integrated Chinese and Western emergency and critical-care medicine, emergency management, acute trauma, and the emergency treatment of multiple and combined injuries as its research directions. It has developed into a clinical second-level discipline integrating clinical care, teaching, and scientific research, with a certain degree of recognition. In recent years, it has diagnosed and treated more than 80,000 emergency patient visits annually and rescued as many as 3,000 emergency and critically ill patients each year, with the rescue success rate remaining above 95%. In 2009, it was designated a hospital-level key department and received the title of Youth Civilization Unit from the Hangzhou Municipal Committee of the Communist Youth League; in 2014, it was rated as a Category III key discipline by the Hangzhou Municipal Health Bureau. Chief Physician Deng Min, the academic leader, is chairperson of the Hangzhou Emergency Medicine Committee. The Department of Emergency Medicine has a PHILIPSMP50 central monitoring system, 6 MAQUETservo_s ventilators, 3 Weikang BiPAP non-invasive ventilators, a Lan Shi Weike cardiopulmonary resuscitation machine, defibrillators, a fiberoptic bronchoscope, temporary pacemakers, an esophageal pacing treatment device, mobile monitors, gastric lavage machines, and other resuscitation equipment. The department has strong overall technical capabilities and performs cardiopulmonary resuscitation on more than 100 patients annually on average, with the resuscitation success rate (ROSC) remaining above 24%; in addition to providing standardized rescue and treatment for acute poisoning, traffic accidents, trauma, cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, and respiratory-system diseases, the department performs emergency intravenous thrombolysis for acute myocardial infarction, emergency intravenous thrombolytic treatment for cerebral infarction, and emergency fiberoptic bronchoscopy examinations and treatment annually, and has developed such new technologies and projects as emergency IABP, PCI, emergency temporary pacemaker implantation, renal arteriography, and emergency esophageal pacing examination and treatment for tachyarrhythmias. These have been recognized by peers at the provincial and municipal levels and have established the department's academic standing. The department's research directions are cardiopulmonary-cerebral resuscitation, integrated Chinese and Western emergency and critical-care medicine, emergency management, acute trauma, and the emergency treatment of multiple and combined injuries.