Critical Care Medicine

Department Establishment History — The Department of Critical Care Medicine was established in 2008 Department Honors — It is currently a participating institution in the construction project for a provincial-level TCM clinical key specialty under the “14th Five-Year Plan, ” and is a Shenzhen TCM specialty with distinctive features. It is a standing committee member institution of the Chinese TCM Critical Care Alliance, a deputy chair institution of the Critical Care Medicine Professional Committee of the Guangdong Association of Chinese Medicine, a chair institution of the Critical Care Medicine Professional Committee of the Shenzhen Association of Chinese Medicine, a deputy chair institution of the Critical Care Medicine Professional Committee of the Shenzhen Medical Association, a vice-chair institution of the Critical Care Professional Committee of the Shenzhen Medical Doctor Association, and others. Department Leadership — Professor Zhang Zhong, the department’s first administrative director, made outstanding contributions to the department’s development. The current department director is Professor Wang Ling. Research Scope — The department is committed to the work of integrated Chinese and Western medicine diagnosis and treatment, scientific research, and teaching for sepsis, respiratory failure, heart failure disease, and other acute and critical illnesses. Department Operations — The department currently has 2 wards, with 18 designed beds at the Futian Campus and 23 designed beds at the Guangming Campus, and has opened 2 comprehensive internal medicine outpatient clinics. The department has a medical and nursing team of more than 40 people, 1 Shenzhen Famous TCM Physician, 4 master’s degree supervisors, and 5 holders of senior professional titles. It has successively trained 3 excellent TCM talents in the Pengcheng Qihuang Project of Shenzhen, 1 young medical talent under the Shenzhen Elite Talent Training Program, and currently has 8 national- or provincial-level specialist nurses and 1 national TCM nursing backbone. In 2025, it was approved for the Shenzhen Medical Three Famous Project and introduced a Three Famous Project team--the Liu Qingquan TCM Acute and Critical Illness Team of Beijing Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Capital Medical University, and established the “Yangtze River Scholar and Qihuang Scholar Liu Qingquan Famous TCM Physician Experience Inheritance Studio.” As the department providing comprehensive treatment and support for acute and critically ill patients and perioperative patients throughout the hospital, the department has developed ECMO, critical care ultrasound, bronchoscopy examination and treatment technologies, multimodal blood purification therapy, mechanical ventilation technology, percutaneous tracheotomy, hemodynamic monitoring, bedside temporary cardiac pacing technology, BIS monitoring technology, and others. A complete critical illness treatment system has now been established, with a well-established ECMO team; in recent years, the successful ECMO weaning rate has exceeded 50%. The department has also developed visualized comprehensive diagnosis and treatment approaches integrating hemodynamic monitoring centered on critical care ultrasound, respiratory mechanics monitoring, and others. The department adheres to the TCM management philosophy of “upholding fundamentals while innovating, and giving equal emphasis to Chinese and Western medicine.” On the basis of basic critical care diagnosis and treatment technologies, it is guided by TCM theory and applies medicines and techniques in critical care diagnosis and treatment, emphasizing distinctive TCM characteristics, giving full play to the advantages of TCM in critical care, and inheriting, innovating, and developing distinctive TCM diagnostic and treatment technologies. There are currently three advantageous disease categories: fever, dyspnea syndrome, and heart failure disease. The department has introduced specialty-specific acupoint application formulas (Dingchuan Jiufei Powder, Wenyang Jiuxin Powder, and Jiedu Tuire Powder) and hospital-specific formulated prescriptions (Baoyuan Decoction, Wenyang Tongxia Formula, and Houpo Mahuang Decoction). More than 10 distinctive TCM therapies are carried out. Delving deeply into Qihuang medicine to save those in peril, with benevolent hearts and skilled hands to safeguard health. Looking ahead, the department will aim to build a high-level regional center for TCM critical care medicine and deepen the coordinated development of medical care, education, and research. With modern critical care diagnosis and treatment technologies as its core, it will integrate the strengths of TCM syndrome differentiation and treatment to collaboratively save critically ill patients; uphold the benevolent heart of medical practitioners and build a critical care medical service system characterized by rapid response, full-course protection, responsibility, and warmth. Department Group Photo.