Critical Care Medicine

The Department of Critical Care Medicine was established in 1990 and was approved as a National Key Clinical Specialty in 2012. The current academic leader is Professor Xie Min, who serves as Director of the Emergency Medicine Teaching and Research Office, Director of the Department of Emergency Medicine, Director of the Department of Critical Care Medicine, Professor, Chief Physician, and Doctoral Supervisor. She has led 5 National Natural Science Foundation of China projects and 1 subproject of a major project of the Ministry of Science and Technology; she has published more than 130 papers in academic journals, including more than 90 SCI papers, among which she published 9 papers with an IF＞10 as first author/corresponding author in internationally top journals (BMJ, JACI, Allergy, and other journals), with a cumulative impact factor of 170 and an H-index of 22. She also concurrently holds more than ten academic positions, including Honorary Member of the Asian Pacific Society of Respirology, and is the core engine of the department’s strategic development and academic innovation. This discipline is subdivided by organs and diseases into multiple subspecialty groups, including respiratory, circulatory, neurological, and renal groups, and currently has 6 wards. We have always centered on the seamless connection of the patient life-saving chain and are committed to improving the six-in-one, whole-process life-protection closed loop of “pre-hospital emergency care—hospital emergency care—critical care—subcritical care and multidisciplinary treatment—rehabilitation management—chronic disease follow-up,” providing patients with comprehensive protection from the treatment of acute and critical illnesses to long-term health management. The department currently has 11 doctors with senior professional titles, 11 doctors with associate senior professional titles, 6 doctoral supervisors, and 16 master’s supervisors, including 1 leading talent of Hubei Province. Several members of our department hold principal or deputy positions in various international/Asian/, Chinese (national), Hubei Provincial, and Wuhan Municipal societies, such as Professor Xie Min, who serves as Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Respirology, Frontier in physiology, and Therapeutic Advances in Respiratory Disease, Leader of the Respiratory Professional Group of the Expert Volunteer Committee for Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine of the China Volunteer Association, Standing Committee Member of the Respiratory Branch of the China Alliance for Rare Diseases, Deputy Chairman of the Respiratory Disease Professional Committee of the Hubei Society of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine, and Chairman of the Lung Cancer Alliance of the Hubei Society of Pathophysiology; Professor Li Shusheng, who serves as Vice President of the Fifth Council of the Critical Care Physicians Branch of the Chinese Medical Doctor Association, Deputy Chairman of the Critical Illness Medicine Professional Committee of the Chinese Society of Pathophysiology, Committee Member of the Critical Care Medicine Branch of the Chinese Medical Association, Standing Committee Member of the Emergency Medicine Professional Committee of the Chinese Research Hospital Association, Director of the Hubei Provincial Critical Care Medicine Quality Control Center, Chairman of the Emergency Medicine Branch of the Hubei Medical Association, and Executive Editor-in-Chief of the Editorial Committee of the Emergency Medicine Column of Physician News; Professor Zhu Wei, who serves as Council Member of the Chinese Hospital Association, Deputy Chairman of the Youth Scientists Committee of the Chinese Medical Rescue Association, Standing Committee Member of the Critical Care Physicians Branch of the Chinese Medical Doctor Association, Chairman of the Critical Illness Medicine Professional Committee of the Hubei Society of Pathophysiology, Deputy Chairman of the Critical Care Medicine Branch of the Hubei Medical Association, Chairman of the Outpatient and Emergency Management Professional Committee of the Hubei Hospital Management Association, and Standing Council Member of the Hubei Society of Pathophysiology; and Head Nurse Xiong Jie, who serves as Deputy Chairman of the Critical Care Nursing Professional Committee of the Hubei Provincial Society and Chairman of the Critical Care Nursing Professional Committee of the Wuhan Nursing Association. Our department routinely carries out a complete range of life-support technologies, including extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO), critical care blood purification (CRRT/CBP), hemodynamic monitoring, critical care ultrasound, and bedside bronchoscopy, thereby establishing a solid technical support platform. Over the past ten years, the department has undertaken a total of 12 National Natural Science Foundation of China projects, 56 provincial- and municipal-level foundation projects, and 165 other projects at various levels; over the past ten years, it has published 691 papers; applied for 28 patents, and achieved the commercialization of 3 achievements (with a commercialization amount of 1.11 million yuan), forming a virtuous development pattern of “driving innovation with clinical problems and optimizing teaching with scientific research achievements.” The data statistics are current as of January 2026.