Overview

Advanced, specialized Critical Care at all Hours

The Intensive Care Unit (Unit 2) has 24 bed provides, and provides comprehensive medical management for individuals with critical illness or following major surgery.

Our clinical team includes specialty-trained intensivists, as well as critical care nurses, respiratory therapists and clinical pharmacists who have advanced training in critical care. Our department has become a domestic leading level team for diagnosis and treatment of the critically ill.

Technical advantages

The department has a comprehensive set of diagnostic monitoring equipment, including ventilators, blood purification instruments, blood gas analysis, fiber-optic bronchoscopy, defibrillation and pacemakers, hypothermic blankets, Extra-Corporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO), and bedside ultrasound.

We are able to carry out many bedside interventions, including bedside Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy (CRRT), bedside ECMO, bedside ultrasonography, and bedside thoracotomy. Additionally, we are able to perform percutaneous dilatational tracheostomy, bronchoscopy, Intra-Arterial Blood Pressure monitoring, and the placement of PICCO and Swan-Ganz catheter in order to monitor hemodynamics.  

Services

Our unit provides specialty-specific ICU services, including cardiac, neurologic, medical, respiratory, trauma and surgical critical care. Some examples are listed below:

·Cardiovascular emergencies

·Cardiac arrest and post-resuscitation care

·Postoperative care following major surgery - including cardiac, neurological, and vascular surgery.

·Shock

o Distributive

o Cardiogenic

o Obstructive

o Hypovolemic

·Sepsis/septic shock

·Multiple organ dysfunction syndrome

· Acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS)

· Acute respiratory failure (all types)

· Drug overdose

· Pulmonary embolism

· Severe acute pancreatitis

· Severe metabolic abnormalities

· Multiple trauma

Characteristics

· Our department has the earliest established respiratory team in China, which is made up of specialized staff members. These include intensivists, critical care nurses, respiratory therapists, rehabilitation therapists, clinical pharmacists, nutritionists and a pain management team to provide a strong support system, enabling the hospital to carry out major and difficult operations.

· The respiratory team are able to carry out specialized procedures such as bedside bronchoscopy, percutaneous dilatational tracheostomy, and programmed weaning of patients with difficult extubation. 

· We have a cardiac critical care subspecialty team including cardiac rehabilitation, especially for cardiac surgical patients.

· An ICU-led MDT team provides a supportive network to improve patient outcomes in conditions such as: severe pancreatitis, severe respiratory problems and nutritional therapy for critical patients.

· Rapid response teams (RRTs) provide early intervention for patients who meet the early warning sign criteria. This effectively decreases the intubation and Code Blue rates from departments outside of the intensive care unit.

· A resuscitation center provides high quality care in resuscitation and post cardiac arrest. This includes targeted temperature management (TTM) for both out-of-hospital and in-hospital cardiac arrest patients.

· A professional training team for BLS, ACLS and ACLS-EP certification by the American heart association (AHA).