Main Campus Critical Care Medicine Department

The Department of Critical Care Medicine (ICU) at Qingdao Municipal Hospital was established in 1993. It has strong technical expertise and currently has 7 physicians (5 deputy chief physicians and 2 attending physicians, including 3 with master's-level qualifications and 4 with bachelor's-level qualifications), 17 nurses (7 with bachelor's-level qualifications, 8 with junior-college qualifications, and 2 with secondary technical-school qualifications), and 10 beds. It has a total of 8 ventilators—PB740, PB760, PB7200, PB840, and Bear 1000; 10 HP patient monitors, 2 HP central monitoring stations, 1 portable monitor, 21 microinfusion pumps, 1 cooling blanket, 1 portable blood-gas analyzer and 1 printer, 1 defibrillator, 1 electrocardiograph, and other advanced emergency equipment. The department's scale and basic configuration have both reached an advanced level domestically.

The department undertakes critical-care emergency rescue, medical care, and monitoring for critically ill patients in Qingdao and the surrounding areas, as well as scientific research, professional personnel training, and many other tasks. It carries out multidisciplinary rescue efforts for critically ill patients, including cases of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, respiratory failure, ARDS, massive cerebral infarction, cerebral hemorrhage, severe pulmonary infection, severe connective-tissue disease complicated by multiple organ failure, drug poisoning, diabetic hyperosmolar coma, severe pancreatitis, and severe cholangitis complicated by ARDS.

The department implements numerous new technologies and carries out numerous new projects, while actively training key medical and nursing personnel for other departments, thereby improving those departments' rescue capabilities. It has undertaken numerous provincial- and municipal-level research projects and received multiple provincial- and municipal-level science and technology progress awards. It has also accumulated extensive clinical experience in multiple organ failure, various types of shock, severe infection, severe disorders of water, electrolyte, and acid-base balance, complex arrhythmias, heart failure and mechanical ventilation, the clinical application of intra-aortic balloon counterpulsation, and continuous bedside hemofiltration. On many occasions, at the most critical moments of patients' lives, timely and accurate treatment together with high-quality, attentive care has given patients a new lease on life.

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