Emergency Internal Medicine

The Emergency Department is a traditionally strong department of this century-old hospital and is now, as a key project of the emergency and first-aid development and construction of our hospital and our province, being rapidly renewed and brought to maturity. With Cong Yunfeng, an emergency medicine expert of Heilongjiang Province, serving as director of the department and discipline leader, professionals from several tertiary disciplines have been transferred in to strengthen the discipline, an open talent management model is practiced, and, adhering to the service concept of one-stop service, a complete medical system has been formed that integrates pre-hospital first aid, in-hospital emergency care and critical care as a trinity and develops medical care, teaching, scientific research and community health education in parallel. The department strengthens scientific, standardized and institutionalized management, striving to create first-class equipment, first-class medical care and first-class service. In particular, in the appraisal by the Ministry of Health that had just concluded in December 2006, the Emergency Center, with outstanding performance, was approved as one of the first pilot units of specialist physician training bases of the Ministry of Health. The appraisal experts of the Ministry of Health spoke highly of it, noting that the center's medical work is professional and comprehensive, its technology advanced, its work distinctive and its development potential enormous.

The Emergency Department provides emergency medical assistance to the whole of society 24 hours a day. The department includes emergency internal medicine, emergency general internal medicine, emergency orthopedics, emergency neurosurgery, emergency orthopedics, emergency pediatrics, the chest pain center, the stroke center and the trauma center, and is able to provide emergency and first-aid medical services to patients around the clock, 24 hours a day.

The department currently has 9 physicians, including 1 chief physician and 3 associate chief physicians, with technical personnel at intermediate level and above accounting for 20%; and 20 nurses (nurse practitioners). It has complete internationally advanced, high-precision medical monitoring, treatment and examination equipment: a Sarbro cardiopulmonary resuscitation machine, a Philips ventilator, a cardiac defibrillation and pacing monitor (GE), the most advanced fully automatic blood gas analyzer currently available (GEM5000), and a rapid diagnostic device for myocardial infarction and heart failure.

Relying on the strong scientific research and technical capabilities and the highly sophisticated equipment of the Fourth Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University, the Emergency Department implements strict management of medical care, scientific research and teaching. In particular, adhering to the internationally accepted service concept of one-stop service, practicing repeatedly and continuously accumulating and innovating, the center has formed a trinity of pre-hospital first aid, in-hospital emergency care and critical care, together with multiple distinctive and specialized green channels for emergency and first-aid care; with high efficiency and a high level, the emergency team provides strong and solid medical protection for the health of the people of Longjiang.