Songbei—Critical Care Medicine Department

Songbei Department of Critical Care Medicine (ICU, intensive care unit) is a clinical base for critical care medicine and a centralized facility for critically ill patients. The medical functions of the Department of Critical Care Medicine reflect the hospital’s overall level of resuscitation and treatment and are a concrete manifestation of the hospital’s modernization. The department is located on the third floor of the inpatient building and was planned and designed strictly in accordance with current critical care workflows; it is the core department for treating acutely and critically ill patients. It currently has 20 medical and nursing staff members, including 4 physicians (1 chief physician, 1 deputy chief physician, 1 attending physician, and 1 physician) and 16 nursing staff members (2 charge nurses and 14 nurses). The department has 15 beds, and more than 50% of its medical and nursing staff have received specialized intensive care training. It is equipped with an internationally advanced central monitoring system, central oxygen supply, negative-pressure suction devices, multiparameter monitors, ventilators, defibrillators, blood-gas analyzers, micro-injection pumps, full-lead electrocardiographs, mild-hypothermia treatment devices, blood-purification machines, and many other types of equipment. The unit also has disinfection machines and air-conditioning equipment, providing strong support for the rapid, effective, and proactive resuscitation of all kinds of critically ill patients; it is the hospital’s rescue center for critically ill patients.

The department mainly admits patients with: severe infections, severe trauma, various combined injuries, multiple organ dysfunction syndrome (MODS), acute exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) complicated by severe respiratory failure, severe attacks of bronchial asthma, acute coronary syndrome, acute heart failure, severe arrhythmias, shock, impaired consciousness, postoperative conditions following major surgery, etc.

Every bed in the department is equipped with a multiparameter monitor, providing continuous 24-hour monitoring of the patient’s heart rate, blood pressure, respiration, oxygen saturation, and other vital signs. The ventilator is the principal therapeutic device in critical care medicine. The department currently has a corresponding number of high-end ventilators that can provide ventilatory support for patients of different ages, including children and adults. It has micro-injection pumps and is also equipped with bedside point-of-care blood glucose meters, bedside blood-gas analyzers, bedside ultrasound, noninvasive cardiac-output measurement devices, bedside fiberoptic bronchoscopes, and CRRT. The medical and nursing personnel are skilled in applying advanced theories and techniques to provide effective treatment and care for critically ill patients. They strive for professional excellence and have extensive clinical experience in the resuscitation and treatment of various critical illnesses, including shock, respiratory failure, and multiple organ failure, having reached a certain level of proficiency. This has greatly improved the success rate of rescuing and treating critically ill patients.

While improving its medical and technical standards, the department applies a holistic nursing model to ICU patients, enabling them to experience deep humanistic care during their ICU stay, actively cooperate with all treatments, and achieve the best possible psychological and physiological state, thereby helping them overcome the crisis and recover as early as possible. With the strong support of the hospital leadership and the dedicated efforts of the entire department, we will safeguard critically ill patients with better technology and higher-quality services!