Critical Care Medicine Department

The Department of Critical Care Medicine of Tianjin Medical University General Hospital is the core department of the general hospital for rescuing critically ill patients. It mainly treats critically ill patients in Tianjin and surrounding provinces and cities. Its comprehensive rescue capabilities have reached the leading level in the country.

The surgical ICU was established on September 14, 2005, and the comprehensive ICU was established on March 21, 2011. Up to now, the department has gradually developed and expanded, with 4 wards, 2 laminar flow wards, and a total of 42 beds.

It treats more than 3,000 critically ill patients every year, with a rescue success rate of over 90%.

The department currently has advanced medical instruments and equipment needed in the field of critical illness treatment, with a total value of approximately 40 million yuan.

The department has accumulated rich clinical experience in acute multiple organ dysfunction syndrome, organ failure (such as ARF, ARDS, DIC), sepsis, acute poisoning, multiple trauma, severe hematological injuries, shock caused by various reasons, and perioperative care of surgical patients (such as critical obstetrics, cardiovascular surgery, multiple trauma combined injuries). It provides patients with critical illness treatment and postoperative life support every year, and has won recognition and support from various clinical departments of the hospital and the majority of patients.

In order to strengthen the discipline development of the Department of Critical Care Medicine, the hospital specially appointed Professor Wang Guolin, a famous anesthesiology expert in my country and former deputy director of the General Hospital, as the chief expert and subject leader of the Department of Critical Care Medicine to assist in the development and construction of the Department of Critical Care Medicine.

The Department of Critical Care Medicine is responsible for the training and continuing education of critical care medical staff of Tianjin Medical University, as well as the clinical training tasks for ICU specialist nurses in Tianjin. It has received visiting and studying personnel from domestic brother hospitals for many times, has undertaken many exchanges of foreign critical care medicine experts, and successfully held many critical care medicine seminars.

The Department of Critical Care Medicine of the General Hospital took the lead in establishing the Tianjin Medical University's major in critical care medicine to recruit master's and doctoral students.

When COVID-19 was raging in 2020, all medical staff in the Department of Critical Care Medicine devoted themselves to front-line work. Among them, 9 medical staff were dispatched to support the front line in Wuhan, 2 were sent to support Tianjin Haihe Hospital and Jinnan Hospital, and 5 were sent to Shanghai in 2022, and all returned successfully.

Over the years, the department has won many honors. In 2015, it won the title of "Labor Competition Demonstration Collective" from the Tianjin Education Union, the 2013 hospital-level outstanding demonstration ward, and the Tianjin Angel Mote Fund Special Contribution Award.

In 2015, it won the Tianjin “Youth Civilization Award” and “Labor Competition Demonstration Group”.

In 2016, he won the "Most Beautiful Angel Team in White" from Tianjin Medical University.

In 2019, he was awarded the title of May 4th Red Flag Youth League Branch and Advanced Grassroots Party Organization of Tianjin Medical University.

In 2020, he won honorary titles such as the March 8th Red Flag Collective.

In 2021, the Department of Critical Care Medicine of the General Hospital took the lead in establishing the master's and doctoral admissions program in critical care medicine at Tianjin Medical University.

Won the Outstanding Volunteer Service Group in 2022.

The talent echelon construction of the Department of Critical Care Medicine is gradually improving. Currently, there are 27 doctors, 97 nurses, 4 chief physicians, 11 deputy chief physicians, and 8 deputy chief nurses.

Among them, the medical team has 7 PhDs, 4 PhD candidates, and 16 masters.

There are 2 doctoral supervisors and 4 master supervisors.

The nursing team has 8 people with master's degrees and 68 people with bachelor's degrees, 98% of whom have a bachelor's degree or above.

The leaders of the department focus on cultivating and training young and middle-aged doctors in core skills, and have created a team of high-quality ICU doctors with young and middle-aged backbones as the main body, specialization and multiple abilities, and strong comprehensive strength.

Actively encourage clinical technology innovation and attach importance to the clinical transformation of scientific research results to promote the sustainable development of the Department of Critical Care Medicine.

Relying on the hospital's powerful laboratory department, central laboratory and Tianjin Institute of Anesthesiology, a complete basic research platform has been established, reaching the domestic leading level in basic and clinical research on sepsis and multi-organ injury.