Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine

1. Basic information: The Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine was officially established in January 2006. In July 2020, it was designated the “Lung Nodule Diagnosis and Treatment Sub-center of Suzhou Jiulong Hospital of the China Lung Cancer Prevention and Treatment Alliance”. With the strong support of the hospital and after nearly 20 years of unremitting efforts by all medical and nursing staff, the Department of Respiratory Medicine has achieved certain results in medical care, education and research, and has begun to take shape. Especially during the pandemic, the Department of Respiratory Medicine shouldered major responsibilities, took the lead and fought on every front; among them, Director Ji Ze served as captain of the Suzhou Industrial Park medical team sent to Shanghai to fight the epidemic and led 27 team members to successfully complete the anti-epidemic mission. 2. Bed capacity: There are currently 40 beds in operation, including 9 RICU beds. The department is staffed with dedicated RICU physicians and specialist nurses, and equipped with specialist equipment including invasive ventilators, non-invasive ventilators, high-flow oxygen therapy devices, monitors, bedside bronchoscopes, blood gas analyzers and bedside ultrasound. 3. Personnel team: There are currently 35 medical and nursing staff, including 15 physicians. Master's degrees account for 46.7% and doctoral degrees for 13%. Ten physicians have successively been sent to Shanghai Changhai Hospital, Zhongshan Hospital, and other major hospitals including the First and Second Affiliated Hospitals of Soochow University for further training, including bronchoscopic interventional diagnosis and treatment techniques, RICU specialized training, sleep-respiratory specialized training, and study at a Phase I clinical trial center. 4. Equipment configuration: The Department of Respiratory Medicine has bronchoscopy, pulmonary function and sleep-respiratory monitoring rooms as auxiliary units. Equipment includes Olympus electronic bronchoscopes (260/290 series), ultrasound mini-probes, medical thoracoscopes, German Jaeger pulmonary function testing instruments and FeNO detectors, and an Anbolan sleep-respiratory monitor, basically meeting the needs of the respiratory specialty. The respiratory RICU is equipped with multiple Newport and GE ventilators, high-flow oxygen therapy devices, Philips non-invasive ventilators, bedside ultrasound and blood gas equipment, and other equipment. 5. Clinical features: The department diagnoses and treats common and frequently occurring diseases such as asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, acute and chronic respiratory failure, pulmonary nodules and lung cancer, severe infections and sepsis. It also has relatively extensive clinical experience in diagnosing and treating rare and difficult diseases such as pulmonary sequestration, antiphospholipid antibody syndrome, ABPA, MALT and ANCA-associated vasculitis. The department routinely performs bronchoscopic diagnostic and therapeutic procedures (diagnosis of peripheral pulmonary lesions, TBNA, removal of bronchial foreign bodies, tracheal stent implantation, etc.), treatment of critically ill respiratory patients, and other procedures. It has established several specialty outpatient clinics, such as a pulmonary nodule and lung cancer clinic, an asthma specialty clinic, a COPD clinic, a chronic cough clinic and a “snoring” clinic. 6. Scientific research and teaching: The department has undertaken teaching for standardized training of residents in internal medicine and general practice for many years and has received the title of Excellent Teaching Department multiple times. It currently provides internship teaching for multiple medical schools, including Soochow University Medical School. It has applied for multiple municipal-level projects and published nearly 100 academic papers, including more than 10 SCI papers; the highest IF is 15 points. One person has been awarded the Jinji Lake Talent title. It has conducted 8 provincial- and municipal-level continuing education programs. Director Ji Ze currently serves as a standing committee member of the Primary-level Branch of Respiratory Disease Rehabilitation of the Chinese Medical Education Association; a member of the Respiratory Disease Branch of the Jiangsu Medical Association; a member of the Endoscopy Group of the Respiratory Branch of the Jiangsu Medical Association; a member of the Respiratory Disease Branch of the Jiangsu Medical Doctor Association; a member of the Lung Cancer Group of the Respiratory Physicians of the Jiangsu Medical Doctor Association; a member of the Allergy Special Committee of the Jiangsu Association of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine; a standing committee member and secretary-general of the Respiratory Disease Special Committee of the Jiangsu Association of Social-run Medical Institutions; a member of the Respiratory Disease Branch of the Jiangsu Geriatrics Society; a member of the Respiratory Disease Branch of the Suzhou Preventive Medicine Association; a member of the Suzhou Special Committee on Respiratory Interventional Oncology; a young top talent in the Jinji Lake health tiered training program; a labor model of Suzhou Industrial Park; a medical accident technical appraisal expert in Suzhou; and a labor-capacity appraisal expert of the Suzhou Labor Capacity Appraisal Committee. The department has currently applied for 1 Suzhou key technology project; it has approximately 1 million in research funding currently under study, 1 invention patent and 10 utility model patents. It participates in multiple GCP projects.