Emergency Intensive Care Unit (EICU)

Taikang Xianlin Gulou Hospital Affiliated with Nanjing University Medical School is a large tertiary hospital in Nanjing under Taikang Insurance Group, a Fortune Global 500 company. It is an affiliated hospital of Nanjing University Medical School, a Clinical School of Wuhan University, and an affiliated hospital of Mount Sinai Hospital in the United States. The hospital’s Phase II project is about to open, at which time the hospital will have nearly 1,400 beds.

EICU is an important component of the Department of Emergency Medicine. It has 18 monitoring beds and is equipped with advanced critical care equipment and intelligent healthcare information systems required for comprehensive monitoring, treatment, nursing, and rehabilitation, including high-flow oxygen therapy devices, noninvasive and invasive ventilators, blood purification equipment, hemodynamic monitoring equipment, critical care ultrasound equipment, extracorporeal life support (ECMO), critical care rehabilitation equipment, fiberoptic bronchoscopes, and cerebral oxygen metabolism monitors.

EICU has implemented integrated macrocirculatory and microcirculatory shock monitoring and treatment strategies, long-term mechanical ventilation and weaning strategies, calm treatment strategies for severe traumatic brain injury, early critical care rehabilitation strategies, lung-protective ventilation strategies, critical care mult-site hemodynamic analysis protocols, multimodal cerebral perfusion and metabolism monitoring protocols, respiratory and circulatory support techniques guided by critical care ultrasound, extracorporeal life support techniques, nutritional therapy techniques, and more.

Critical care treatment technologies that improve patient survival, quality of life, and long-term prognosis are our development priorities. We are committed to making EICU a place filled with compassion and respect for the value of life, practicing models of physiological and psychological care in critical illness, high-end critical care services, and palliative care in critical illness. Balancing the intensity of treatment with humanistic warmth is our unremitting pursuit.

The discipline leader, Director Xie Zhiyi, graduated from Peking Union Medical College. He holds a doctorate and is a chief physician, and previously served as a doctoral supervisor at Tsinghua University. Based on advanced critical care medical equipment and leading critical care technologies and concepts, he will build a proactive, first-class critical care team through standardized teaching and training and the conduct of clinically applicable scientific research, providing higher-quality medical services for more patients with acute and critical illnesses.