Zhijiang Intensive Care Department

The Department of Critical Care Medicine at Zhejiang Provincial Tongde Hospital is a national key specialty under the 12th Five-Year Plan established by the National Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine and a vice-chair unit of the Zhejiang Medical Association’s critical care branch. The Zhijiang Critical Care Medicine Department has eight physicians: two with senior, five with intermediate and one with junior professional titles, including one master’s supervisor. It promotes coordinated Chinese and Western medicine, with rehabilitation of organ function related to critical illness as a main feature. Its subspecialties include treatment to promote awakening, respiratory rehabilitation for acute and chronic lung disease, and traditional Chinese medicine and nutritional treatment for patients with prolonged critical illness. It provides invasive and non-invasive respiratory support, bedside fiberoptic bronchoscopy, bedside percutaneous dilatational tracheostomy, bedside ultrasound assessment of organ function, basic and advanced hemodynamic monitoring, emergency bedside temporary cardiac pacing, blood purification techniques, heating and cooling blanket therapy, and organ rehabilitation treatments.

Key techniques: 1. Percutaneous dilatational tracheostomy; 2. Fiberoptic bronchoscopy with bronchoalveolar lavage; 3. Continuous blood purification; 4. Mechanical ventilation in the prone position.