Critical Care Medicine

1. Basic Information: The Department of Critical Care Medicine was established in 2012; in 2017, it was approved as a Suzhou Municipal Clinical Key Specialty, and in 2018, it was approved as an advanced quality-control unit for Suzhou Municipal Critical Care Medicine quality-control work for that year. 2. Bed Capacity: This department has 2 wards, covering an area of 2600 square meters, with 22 monitoring beds in operation and 1400 square meters of laminar-flow wards. Approximately 800 patient admissions are treated annually. 3. Staff Team: There are currently 11 physicians, including 1 chief physician, 4 associate chief physicians, 4 attending physicians, and 2 resident physicians. Among them, 1 holds a doctoral degree, 3 hold master's degrees, and 7 hold bachelor's degrees. Each attending physician goes out for training an average of 3 times per year. The nursing team has 38 established staff members, including 1 associate chief nurse and 3 nurses-in-charge. 4. Equipment: 1 ECMO machine, 1 IABP machine, 1 portable critical-care ultrasound machine, 3 Gambro hemofiltration dialysis machines, 1 ACH-10 hemofiltration dialysis machine, 1 indirect calorimeter, 1 blood gas analyzer, 22 minimally invasive hemodynamic monitors, 4 PICCO monitors, 1 pulmonary artery floating catheter cardiac function monitor, 2 defibrillators, 2 12-lead standard bedside electrocardiographs, 1 temporary pacemaker, 1 transcutaneous oxygen partial pressure and carbon dioxide partial pressure monitor, 22 invasive ventilators, 2 noninvasive ventilators, 1 high-frequency oscillatory ventilator, 1 transport ventilator, 2 fiberoptic bronchoscopes, 2 high-flow respiratory humidification therapy devices, 1 bispectral index monitoring (BIS) device, 5 cooling blankets, 2 warming blankets, 2 ultrasound sputum clearance devices, 2 air-wave pressure circulation therapy devices, 8 air disinfection devices, 2 Space Bird disinfection devices, 10 magnetic therapy lamps, as well as basic instruments and facilities such as infusion pumps, syringe pumps, nutrition pumps, and intravenous infusion systems. 5. Clinical Features: Proficient in providing respiratory support (IPPV, NPPV), circulatory support (IABP, ECMO), blood purification (CRRT), hemoperfusion, plasma exchange, various types of cardiac function monitoring (PICCO), critical-care ultrasound, fiberoptic bronchoscopy, nutritional support therapy, analgesia and sedation, infection control, and other techniques; proficient in cardiopulmonary-cerebral resuscitation, establishment of an artificial airway (tracheal intubation, percutaneous tracheotomy catheter placement, and tracheotomy catheter placement), various arteriovenous puncture procedures, thoracentesis, abdominal paracentesis, closed chest drainage, and other procedures; the diagnostic and treatment scope includes: all types of life-threatening organ dysfunction (MODS) or failure (MODF), patients with severe trauma (including multiple trauma and combined trauma), all types of shock, acute left heart failure, pulmonary hypertensive crisis, malignant arrhythmia, severe myocarditis, severe infection, severe diabetes, thyroid storm, severe pancreatitis, severe pneumonia and all types of respiratory failure, and patients undergoing cardiovascular surgery and major surgical procedures. 6. Research and Teaching: The department has completed 3 Suzhou Municipal research projects, published 10 papers, hosted Suzhou Municipal continuing education training courses multiple times, and completes the teaching task of standardized training for approximately 10 resident physicians each year.