Emergency Department

The Emergency Department of Xiamen Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine provides hospital emergency and critical care in coordination with the municipal 120 prehospital service, surgical services, operating rooms and the hospital ICU. It has examination rooms for internal medicine, surgery, orthopedics, ENT and pediatrics; resuscitation, debridement, monitoring, injection and observation areas; and separate adult and pediatric infusion centers with capacity for 60 and 40 people respectively. Equipment includes monitors, defibrillators, ventilators, ECG, gastric lavage and infusion devices.

The hospital reports that in 2017 the department recorded more than 200,000 emergency visits, approximately 11,962 emergency rescue visits, including about 1,054 major emergency rescues, 6,080 transfers by the 120 emergency service, 190 cardiopulmonary resuscitations and 4,735 wound debridement and suturing procedures. Conditions treated include major trauma, brain injury, fractures, thoracic and abdominal trauma, heart attack, heart failure, serious arrhythmias, asthma, respiratory failure, major bleeding, shock, coma, poisoning and multiple organ dysfunction.

The hospital states that emergency services operate 24 hours a day, with immediate assessment and treatment for critically ill arrivals, priority registration and pharmacy services, and practical assistance such as wheelchairs and drinking water.