Songbei – Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine Department

The Songbei Department of Respiratory Medicine of the Fourth Hospital of Harbin Medical University consists of physicians with extensive clinical experience and a professional nursing team. The department emphasizes the development of a well-structured professional team. The medical and nursing team comprises 21 members: 3 chief physicians, 1 deputy chief physician, 3 attending physicians, and 3 resident physicians; 2 nurse supervisors, 4 nurses, and 5 nursing assistants, including 1 intravenous therapy specialist nurse, 1 respiratory specialist nurse, and 1 rehabilitation nursing specialist nurse.

The department mainly treats patients with benign and malignant pulmonary tumors, pulmonary infections, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, bronchial asthma, interstitial lung disease, bronchiectasis, pleural diseases, and other conditions. It is equipped with advanced medical and nursing equipment, including bilevel noninvasive ventilators, high-flow respiratory humidification therapy devices, whole-chest oscillation sputum clearance machines, and intelligent walking monitoring and analysis systems. The respiratory minimally invasive intervention team possesses a range of advanced respiratory intervention equipment, including an ND:YAG laser, cryotherapy system, argon plasma coagulator, electrosurgical unit, microwave ablation system, and argon-helium knife. The team performs flexible and rigid bronchoscopy as well as percutaneous pulmonary tumor ablation, greatly improving the diagnostic rate of respiratory diseases and the treatment success rate for benign and malignant airway stenosis. It enables precise, minimally invasive ablation treatment of pulmonary tumors. The department has been designated by the Hubei Provincial Laser Society as a laser therapy training base.

The department currently has fully equipped outpatient, inpatient, bronchoscopy, pulmonary function, and pulmonary rehabilitation facilities. It possesses advanced equipment, including an Olympus 290 bronchoscope, medical thoracoscope, endobronchial ultrasound bronchoscope, rigid bronchoscope, ND:YAG laser, cryotherapy system, argon plasma coagulator, electrosurgical unit, pulmonary function testing equipment, noninvasive ventilators, high-flow oxygen therapy equipment, six-minute walk test equipment, external diaphragmatic pacemakers, and upper- and lower-limb rehabilitation equipment.