The Department of Critical Care Medicine (ICU) of Shenzhen Guangming District People's Hospital is a key clinical specialty integrating critical care, teaching, and scientific research. The department is responsible for the rescue and treatment of various critical illnesses, with strong technical strength and complete specialty categories.

Personnel Structure:

The department has 15 critical care physicians, including 2 chief physicians, 4 associate chief physicians, 6 attending physicians, and 3 resident physicians. There are 2 PhDs and 8 masters. The nursing team has 50 nurses, including 5 charge nurses and 45 staff nurses.

Number of Beds:

The department has 20 ICU beds, with an annual admission of more than 1,500 patients and a rescue success rate of more than 90%.

Equipment:

The department is equipped with advanced critical care equipment such as ventilators, hemodialysis machines, continuous renal replacement therapy (CRRT) machines, extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) machines, cardiac monitors, defibrillators, infusion pumps, syringe pumps, bedside blood gas analyzers, bedside ultrasound machines, and bedside X-ray machines.

Scope of Diagnosis and Treatment:

1. Respiratory failure: Various types of respiratory failure, including acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) acute exacerbation, severe pneumonia, etc.

2. Circulatory failure: Various types of circulatory failure, including septic shock, cardiogenic shock, hypovolemic shock, etc.

3. Acute renal failure: Various causes of acute renal failure, including prerenal, renal, and postrenal acute kidney injury.

4. Multiple organ dysfunction syndrome (MODS): Various causes of multiple organ dysfunction syndrome, including severe infection, severe trauma, major surgery, etc.

5. Severe infection: Various severe infections, including sepsis, septic shock, severe pneumonia, etc.

6. Severe trauma: Various severe traumas, including multiple trauma, severe craniocerebral trauma, severe chest trauma, etc.

7. Postoperative critical care: Postoperative care of various major surgeries, including cardiac surgery, neurosurgery, thoracic surgery, etc.

8. Poisoning: Various acute poisonings, including drug poisoning, pesticide poisoning, carbon monoxide poisoning, etc.

Specialty Features:

1. Mechanical ventilation treatment: The department carries out various mechanical ventilation technologies, including invasive ventilation, non-invasive ventilation, high-frequency oscillation ventilation, prone position ventilation, etc.

2. Continuous renal replacement therapy (CRRT): Carrying out continuous renal replacement therapy, including continuous veno-venous hemofiltration (CVVH), continuous veno-venous hemodialysis (CVVHD), continuous veno-venous hemodiafiltration (CVVHDF), etc.

3. Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO): Carrying out extracorporeal membrane oxygenation treatment, including veno-venous ECMO (VV-ECMO), veno-arterial ECMO (VA-ECMO), etc.

4. Hemodynamic monitoring: Carrying out various hemodynamic monitoring technologies, including invasive blood pressure monitoring, central venous pressure monitoring, cardiac output monitoring, etc.

5. Infection control: Establishing a strict infection control system, effectively preventing and controlling hospital-acquired infections in the ICU.