Department of Critical Care Medicine

The Department of Critical Care Medicine is a member unit of the National Critical Care Medicine Specialty Alliance, Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Plasma Purification Specialty Alliance, Shenzhen Critical Care Medicine Specialty Alliance and Shenzhen Critical Care Nursing Alliance. It also serves as a standing director unit of the Critical Care Medicine Committee under both the Shenzhen Medical Association and Shenzhen Rehabilitation Medical Association.

Undertaking the rescue and treatment of critically ill patients in the region, the department acts as the hospital’s clinical, research and teaching base for critical care medicine. It admits nearly 300 to 400 critically ill patients annually with a rescue success rate of over 90%, standing as one of the key windows reflecting the hospital’s overall emergency treatment capacity and comprehensive nursing level.

The department has 10 physicians, including 2 Chief Physicians, 1 Associate Chief Physician, 4 Attending Physicians and 3 Resident Physicians, among whom 1 is a PhD candidate and 8 hold master’s degrees. There are 23 nursing staff, including 2 with associate senior professional titles and 5 with intermediate professional titles, and 21 nurses have bachelor’s degrees.

The department has 13 authorized inpatient beds and 13 actual open beds, including 1 single private room equipped with an independent air supply and exhaust system and a Class 100,000 laminar flow purification system.

The department routinely carries out advanced diagnosis and treatment technologies, including cardiopulmonary resuscitation, non-invasive and invasive mechanical ventilation, hemodynamic monitoring, sedation and analgesia, enteral and parenteral nutrition, bedside continuous blood purification, continuous hemodynamic monitoring, intra-abdominal pressure monitoring, electronic bronchoscopic examination and intervention, tracheotomy, prone position ventilation, and nasojejunal tube placement.

It has rich experience in the treatment of critical illnesses such as severe trauma, shock, respiratory failure, multiple organ dysfunction syndrome (MODS), sepsis, severe acute pancreatitis, post-cardiopulmonary resuscitation conditions and obstetric critical illnesses, reaching the advanced level among peer hospitals in Shenzhen.

Integrating clinical practice, teaching and scientific research, the department has published 4 SCI papers, obtained approval for 3 district-level research projects, released more than 10 academic papers and 5 monographs, and applied for and been granted over 20 national utility model patents in the past three years. It is a designated teaching department for the Clinical College and School of Nursing of Guangdong Medical University, as well as a key rotation training department for standardized training nurses.