Respiratory Medicine

The Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine is a key department of Peking University International Hospital; it is an institution that meets the standards of the National PCCM Standardized Construction Project and is currently a member institution of the National Collaborative Group for the Prevention and Treatment of Pulmonary Embolism and Pulmonary Vascular Diseases and a member institution of the COPD Collaboration Group of the Respiratory Specialty Medical Consortium of China-Japan Friendship Hospital. It mainly admits and treats patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, bronchial asthma, cor pulmonale, pulmonary thromboembolism, lung cancer, sleep apnea syndrome, pneumonia, pleural effusion, pneumothorax, pulmonary arterial hypertension, interstitial lung disease, pulmonary vascular diseases, various difficult-to-diagnose and difficult-to-treat respiratory diseases, as well as critically ill patients in internal medicine. In addition to general ward beds, the department also has an independent respiratory intensive care unit (RICU) and currently has sufficient respiratory support equipment, including invasive ventilators from international brands, noninvasive ventilators, and high-flow nasal humidification therapy devices. The department’s success rate in the emergency rescue of acute pulmonary embolism, acute respiratory failure, severe asthma, severe pneumonia, and other conditions is relatively high. The department has established a bronchoscopy room and currently has 3 conventional bronchoscopes, 2 therapeutic bronchoscopes, 1 bedside bronchoscope, and 1 endobronchial ultrasound bronchoscope. The pulmonary function laboratory can perform pulmonary function testing, airway reversibility testing, exhaled nitric oxide measurement, airway provocation testing, and other examinations. The respiratory medicine outpatient clinic includes a general outpatient clinic, an expert outpatient clinic, a special-needs outpatient clinic, as well as a smoking-cessation clinic, a pulmonary embolism clinic, a COPD and asthma clinic, and a specialized pulmonary nodule clinic. It also undertakes teaching tasks in clinical theory, clinical observation, internships, and other aspects of respiratory diagnostics and respiratory medicine for undergraduate students majoring in clinical medicine at the Peking University Health Science Center, and is a clinical diagnosis, treatment, and research center integrating medical care, teaching, and scientific research.