Emergency Medicine

The Department of Emergency Medicine at Zhejiang Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine undertakes the integrated emergency medical rescue mission of prehospital emergency care, hospital emergency care, and emergency critical-care monitoring. It has a resuscitation room, emergency intensive care unit (EICU), emergency operating room, emergency inpatient observation room, infusion room, and emergency-related specialties; it also has eight emergency collaboration groups that extend an emergency medical system throughout the hospital.

The department has 35 members, of whom practitioners of traditional Chinese medicine account for more than 60%. It has one department director and four deputy directors, as well as one department secretary, one research/teaching secretary, and one chief resident who assists the director; nine subspecialty core staff members are responsible for clinical work and discipline development in each subspecialty. The department has formulated detailed work systems, disease-management procedures, treatment technical standards, and emergency plans, follows all systems strictly in its daily management, and has established network-based daily management.

Technical Strengths

The Department of Emergency Medicine is equipped with various advanced medical rescue devices, including a central monitoring system, multifunctional monitors, advanced ventilators, multifunctional monitoring beds, and ultrasound machines. It can independently perform endotracheal intubation, tracheotomy, fiberoptic-bronchoscopy sputum suction, electrical cardioversion/defibrillation, PiCCO monitoring, mild hypothermia, mechanical ventilation, and various serous-cavity and arteriovenous punctures. It also has extensive expertise in severe cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases and is proficient in thrombolytic treatment for acute cerebral infarction, acute myocardial infarction, and acute pulmonary infarction. The department also collaborates with other specialties to provide various blood-purification technologies, ECMO, coronary PCI, and vascular interventions, such as endovascular exclusion of aortic dissection and thrombectomy and vascular embolization for stroke.

Academic Status

The Department of Emergency Medicine of Zhejiang Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine is one of the first-batch member institutions of the Ministry of Health International Emergency Rescue Center network hospitals; a construction unit of the National Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine's national TCM emergency center; a national key TCM specialty; a key-discipline construction unit of the Zhejiang Provincial Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine; a vice-chair institution of the Chinese TCM Emergency Specialty Medical Alliance; and a construction unit for the Zhejiang provincial chairing institution.

Research Achievements

The discipline focuses on clinical and basic traditional Chinese medicine research on sepsis, with emphasis on TCM pattern-based diagnosis and treatment of sepsis-related acute lung injury, geriatric sepsis, and erysipelas-sepsis. It undertakes more than 10 related projects, has research funding of more than 800,000 yuan, and has published more than 20 academic papers in core journals, including more than 10 SCI papers; it has also participated in formulating the diagnosis and treatment plan for sepsis as an advantageous disease in the Yangtze River Delta.