East Campus Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine Department

The Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine of the East Campus is a Shandong Provincial Clinical Key Specialty and a Class B Key Discipline in Health Professions of Qingdao. Established in 2002, it was the earliest professional department established at the East Campus. It currently has more than 50 medical, nursing, technical, and research personnel, including 1 doctoral supervisor, 2 master's supervisors, 2 chief physicians, 4 deputy chief physicians, and 2 doctors with doctoral degrees. There is 1 Qingdao Outstanding Talent and 1 renowned expert in Qingdao. Several members of the department have successively gone to Germany, the United States, and Canada for further study and training.

The department has 2 general wards (80 approved beds), 1 respiratory intensive care unit (RICU) (5 beds), 1 pulmonary function room, and 1 bronchoscopy room, and is equipped with advanced equipment such as ventilators, bronchoscopic examination and interventional treatment equipment, and pulmonary function instruments. It admits patients year-round with respiratory diseases such as pneumonia, asthma, COPD, pulmonary embolism, lung cancer, interstitial lung disease, chronic respiratory failure, ARDS, pleural effusion, and pneumothorax, and specializes in bronchoscopic interventional treatment (bronchoscopic stent placement, cryotherapy, high-frequency electrocoagulation therapy, argon plasma coagulation therapy, TBNA, TBLB, etc.). The department features asthma, lung cancer, and critical respiratory illnesses as its areas of specialty, and was the first to establish specialized asthma and smoking cessation clinics; it provides follow-up management for patients with chronic lung diseases. Its annual outpatient volume exceeds 20,000 visits, it admits more than 2,000 patients from across the province each year, and rescues more than 500 critically ill patients each year.

The Department of Respiratory Medicine of the East Campus is a national clinical drug research institution and undertakes multiple international multicenter studies. Over the years, it has published more than 100 various papers in domestic and international journals and at conferences, and has undertaken multiple national- and provincial/municipal-level scientific research projects. It has received 2 third prizes for scientific and technological progress from Shandong Province, 2 third prizes for medical science and technology from Shandong Province, 1 first prize for science and technology from the Shandong Health Science and Technology Association, 2 second prizes and 1 third prize for scientific and technological progress from Qingdao (all as the first-ranked recipient).The Respiratory Department of East Hospital is a training base for doctoral and master's graduate students, enrolling graduate students from Qingdao University, Dalian Medical University, Weifang Medical University, Taishan Medical College and many other universities.

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