Critical Care Medicine

The Department of Critical Care Medicine of West China Hospital, Sichuan University, was established on May 12, 1992, and has now become a center for critical care monitoring, treatment, and nursing, with 8 critical care units and more than 20 subspecialty medical teams. It is a new type of department operated through collaboration across multiple campuses, multiple wards, and multiple disciplines. The department has a total of 268 beds and more than 800 medical and nursing staff, and is equipped with internationally leading organ-function monitoring, support, and treatment equipment, comprehensive clinical research and teaching equipment, excellent medical, nursing, and respiratory therapist teams, and various clinical treatment teams. It admits more than 10,000 critically ill patients annually, with a successful cure rate of over 95%. It undertakes classroom and clinical-practice teaching for the university’s undergraduate, 8-year-program, and postgraduate students, and is the largest clinical and teaching base for critical care medicine in China, with the most complete range of subspecialties. It is one of the first National Key Clinical Specialties, a National Standardized Training Base for Critical Care Medicine Residents/Specialist Physicians, the Sichuan Provincial Critical Care Quality Control Center, and the Sichuan Provincial ICU Specialist Nurse Training Base. Over the past five years, it has undertaken more than 50 projects, including projects of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the Ministry of Health, the Chinese Medical Association, the Sichuan Provincial Health Department, and the Sichuan Provincial Department of Science and Technology; applied for more than 70 patents; and undertaken research funding exceeding 30 million yuan. It has published more than 500 papers in core and higher-level journals, including more than 150 SCI papers. It has received 6 national and Sichuan provincial science and technology awards and 1 Asian Hospital Management Gold Award. It ranked first in critical care medicine in the 2021 China Hospital Science and Technology Evaluation Metrics (STEM), and ranked third nationwide in the specialty category (Critical Care Medicine) of Fudan University’s Best Hospitals Ranking.