Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine

Shandong University Qilu Hospital’s Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine originated from the respiratory specialty of the Department of Internal Medicine at the Affiliated Hospital of Shandong Medical College. As early as 1974, the renowned respiratory disease experts, Professors Lin Chaoming and Zhang Yimei, through their noble character, profound knowledge, and superb medical skills, placed our hospital’s respiratory specialty in an academically leading position in the domestic respiratory field. Subsequently, Professors Xu Renhe and Tong Xueyi carried on the work of the older generation; after more than a decade of unremitting effort, the Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine has become the department with the strongest overall capabilities in the respiratory field of Shandong Province and also enjoys a certain reputation nationally. Over the past ten years, the Department’s young and middle-aged physicians have flourished, showing unprecedentedly strong momentum. At present, professors in the Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine hold the following relevant national or provincial academic positions: Standing Committee member of the Respiratory Society of the Chinese Medical Association; Standing Committee member of the Allergy Society of the Chinese Medical Association; Standing Committee member of the Chinese Association of Respiratory Physicians; editorial board member of the Chinese Journal of Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases, editorial board member of the Chinese Journal of Antibiotics, editorial board member of the Chinese Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine; chair-elect and deputy chair of the Shandong Branch of Respiratory Diseases of the Chinese Medical Association; deputy chair of the Shandong Branch of the Chinese Association of Respiratory Physicians; deputy chair of the Clinical Antibiotics Professional Committee of the Shandong Pharmaceutical Association. The Department of Respiratory Medicine currently has 5 doctoral supervisors.

The Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine consists of an outpatient clinic, wards, a pulmonary function laboratory, and a bronchoscopy suite. There are 100 officially designated inpatient beds, including 8 respiratory critical care monitoring beds. There are 28 physicians in the approved staffing establishment, including 7 chief physicians, 5 deputy chief physicians, 9 attending physicians, and 7 resident physicians; 69 nurses (nursing staff); and 3 technicians. The Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine at Qilu Hospital is a clinical department integrating medical care, teaching, and research. With the continuous development of basic and clinical medicine, the Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine has become an indispensable key department in general hospitals, especially for the diagnosis and emergency rescue of complex diseases and critical conditions within the hospital, such as: respiratory failure caused by diseases of various organ systems, pulmonary infections secondary to various underlying diseases, preoperative pulmonary function testing for patients in surgical departments and assessment of their surgical risks, etc., involving patients from almost all clinical specialties in the hospital.