Emergency Department

1. Basic Overview: The Emergency Department was approved as a Suzhou Municipal Clinical Key Specialty in 2022. The department currently has emergency specialty consultation rooms for internal medicine, surgery, obstetrics and gynecology, pediatrics, and animal bites, as well as an emergency resuscitation room, a trauma resuscitation unit, an emergency infusion room, an emergency observation ward, an emergency ward, and an emergency ICU; in addition, the department has successively established 6 pre-hospital emergency substations. 2. Bed Capacity: There are currently two emergency resuscitation areas (Area A is the trauma resuscitation unit, and Area B is the resuscitation area for Class I and Class II patients), with 12 resuscitation beds. Emergency Area C can accommodate Class III and Class IV patients and is divided into emergency internal medicine, emergency surgery, an animal bite clinic, emergency pediatrics, emergency obstetrics and gynecology, etc. The Emergency Department has 6 pre-hospital emergency substations under it, which carry out pre-hospital emergency missions within the park area. 3. Staff Team: There are currently 85 staff members, including 23 physicians, of whom 2 are chief physicians, 5 are associate chief physicians, and 14 hold intermediate professional titles, plus 62 emergency nurses (licensed nurses). 4. Equipment: Patient monitors, ventilators, Sab mechanical cardiopulmonary resuscitation devices, gastric lavage machines, blood glucose meters, POCT rapid testing devices, infusion pumps, syringe pumps, cooling blankets, electrocardiographs, pain therapy devices, etc.; there are 10 ambulances in total, equipped with a “pre-hospital–in-hospital” visualized information transmission system. The emergency ICU is also equipped with extracorporeal life support devices such as ECMO, IABP, and CRRT. 5. Clinical Features: The department strives to build a high-quality “pre-hospital–emergency–EICU three-point, one-line uninterrupted resuscitation relay” model and has carried out distinctive techniques such as ECMO, IABP, CRRT, and emergency bedside ultrasound. It has become the support and platform for the development of the hospital’s trauma center, chest pain center, and stroke center, among others. 6. Research and Teaching: The department has successively undertaken 2 Suzhou municipal research projects, published dozens of papers, is responsible for first-aid training for enterprises and public institutions within the park area and for the supervision of the hospital’s standardized-training physicians, and organizes continuing education programs in emergency medicine.