Emergency Department

The Emergency Department of the Affiliated Hospital of Inner Mongolia Medical University is a key discipline of the autonomous region and a comprehensive prehospital, in-hospital, and critical-care treatment center integrating medical care, teaching, and scientific research. The total floor area is 5811m2. It has a triage desk; consultation rooms for emergency internal medicine, surgery, gynecology, ophthalmology, otolaryngology, and stomatology; a treatment room; consultation rooms for the chest pain, stroke, and trauma centers; and is adjacent to the laboratory, CT room, B-ultrasound room, emergency pharmacy, and registration and billing office. There are 160 beds, including 20-25 resuscitation-area beds, 1 isolation observation-room bed, 30 observation-area beds, 10 EICU beds, 55 emergency internal medicine/chest pain ward beds, and 45 emergency surgery ward beds. In 2007, the Emergency Medicine Teaching and Research Section was established, and in 2011 it became a master's degree conferral site for emergency medicine. In 2017, it passed China Chest Pain Center accreditation and was approved as a demonstration base; in 2019, it was approved as a national key training base for standardized emergency medicine residency training, and it is also a training base for emergency and critical care specialty nurses in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. There are 224 medical and nursing staff members, including 68 doctors and 156 nursing staff. There are 12 senior professionals and 16 associate senior professionals; 9 staff members hold doctoral degrees and 33 hold master's degrees. It has mature interventional, CRRT, and ECMO teams. A green channel has been established, along with a chest pain center, and it cooperates in the construction of the stroke center, trauma center, and high-risk maternal treatment center. It undertakes the treatment of various acute and critical illnesses. The annual number of emergency outpatients exceeds 200,000 visits, nearly 20,000 critically ill patients are resuscitated annually, and there are 4810 inpatient visits; prehospital dispatches exceed 5000 cases annually. It has participated in 22 air-rescue missions and emergency public-event responses, and performs more than 1700 interventional procedures annually, more than 600 emergency PCI procedures, more than 200 emergency temporary pacing procedures, and nearly 1000 emergency surgical operations. Features: Emergency internal medicine performs thrombolytic and interventional treatment for acute myocardial infarction, emergency bedside temporary pacing, permanent pacemaker implantation, left bundle branch pacing, and cardiac resynchronization therapy; radiofrequency ablation for tachyarrhythmias; coronary intervention, rotational atherectomy, left atrial appendage occlusion, and intravascular coronary ultrasound IVUS and OCT examinations, among others. The EICU provides ventilator support, mild hypothermia therapy, IABP circulatory support, ECMO (artificial membrane lung), hemoperfusion, continuous bedside renal replacement therapy CRRT, artificial liver, and other life support. Emergency surgery is led by the treatment of acute abdomen and carries out trauma scoring and the application of laparoscopy in acute abdomen, exploratory laparotomy, and other techniques.