The Department of Critical Care Medicine of SRRSH was founded in 1994. After 30 years of development, it has become a world-class intensive care medicine center integrating medical treatment, scientific research and teaching. It has been selected as one of the top 30 critical care medicine departments of top hospitals in 2022 certified as a national intensive care medicine professional training base hospital. The department now has more than 70 doctors, including 7 chief physicians, 15 deputy chief physicians, and qualified technical staff members. The dominant specialties include severe acute pancreatitis, severe abdominal infection, severe cardiac disease, respiratory disease, neurological disease, perioperative patient management and other clinical subspecialties. In addition, the department has a domestic leading respiratory therapy discipline and a domestic first-class nursing team, equipped with international advanced ECMO, CRRT machine, ventilator, bronchoscope, ultrasound and other medical equipment.

The department has strong strength in clinical diagnosis and treatment, and has strong technical force and advanced and comprehensive equipment in the professional fields of severe acute pancreatitis, abdominal infection, cardiac severe disease, respiratory severe disease, critical nutrition, ECMO, CRRT, etc. The department continues to promote the construction of domestic advanced sub-specialty teams, including severe acute pancreatitis/celiac infection sub-specialty, cardiac intensive care/extranormal-life support center, respiratory intensive care team, neurological intensive care, stroke center, transplant center, etc.

Restricted medical technology Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) technical training base

National standardized training base for intensive care medical residents

Chairman Unit of the China Abdominal Critical Disease Cooperation Group

Vice President Unit of the Critical Medicine Branch of the Zhejiang Doctors Association

The Department of Critical Care Medicine conducts scientific research on the occurrence and development mechanism and clinical manifestations of acute and critical diseases such as pathogenic microorganisms, sepsis, severe acute pancreatitis, complex abdominal infection, severe heart disease, and acute respiratory failure. In recent years, the Department of Critical Care Medicine has led more than 10 projects funded by the National Natural Science Foundation and the Natural Science Foundation of Zhejiang Province. The clinical basic research on severe pancreatitis has been supported by the National Natural Science Foundation, a provincial key research and development project, and provincial and ministerial key projects. Nearly 200 papers have been published, including nearly 100 indexed by SCI. The department established a public, multi-center and international digital platform for acute pancreatitis. It has led the development of clinical guidelines and consensus, including the Chinese Expert Consensus on Analgesic Treatment of Severe Acute Pancreatitis (2022 edition), the Chinese Expert Consensus on Central Venous Catheter Management in Severe Patients (2022 edition), the Expert Consensus on Enteral Nutrition in Severe Patients with Gastrointestinal Dysfunction (2021 edition), and the Expert Consensus on Monitoring and Management of Intraabdominal Hypertension in Severe Patients (2020 edition), Expert Recommendations for Diagnosis and Treatment of Novel Coronavirus Pneumonia Complicated with Cardiac Insufficiency, Consensus of Chinese experts on Low Cardiac Output Syndrome, Consensus of Chinese Experts on Severe Cardiac Analgesia and Sedation, Consensus of Experts on Perioperative Application of Intra-Aortic Balloon Counter Pulsation in Cardiac Surgery, etc.