The predecessor of the Department of Intensive Care Medicine of West China Hospital of Sichuan University, "Strengthening the medical department" was established on May 12, 1992, is a comprehensive hospital-wide intensive care unit. After nearly two decades of development, the department has now become a mega ICU with four wards and 132 beds, and in June 2009, the department passed the review and was officially renamed as "Department of Critical Care Medicine". At present, the department has intensive care unit (ICU), surgical intensive care unit (SICU), neurological intensive care unit (NICU), pediatric intensive care unit (PICU), and other intensive care units. （There are four wards: surgical intensive care unit (SICU), neurological intensive care unit (NICU), pediatric intensive care unit (PICU). In the ICU, there are sub-specialty groups such as respiratory intensive care, organ transplantation intensive care and comprehensive intensive care. There are 2 professors, 4 associate professors, 10 attending physicians, 2 deputy chief nurses, 18 chief nurses and 36 nurse practitioners in the department. The department is also the first intensive care medicine department in China to have a team of professional respiratory therapists, and has a sufficient number of residents and nursing staff. For the country's largest, set of medical, teaching, research as one of the critical care medicine training center, responsible for the whole hospital, Sichuan Province and even the southwest region of the treatment of critically ill patients, the annual admission of all kinds of critically ill patients more than 6,000 cases.
The department now has more than 150 ventilators of international first-class standard, more than 30 non-invasive ventilators, 9 transport ventilators, 11 fiberoptic bronchoscopes, a sufficient number of Phlipes monitors, infusion pumps and infusion workstations, equipped with intravascular hypothermia machine, bedside ultrasound, X-ray, PiCCO and floating catheter cardiac output monitor and a large number of advanced monitoring and treatment equipment. Equipment. We have rich experience in organ support for critically ill patients, treatment of severe infections, clinical nutrition, correction and treatment of internal environmental disorders and remote transportation of critically ill patients. In the severe pancreatitis of Chinese and Western medicine combined treatment, liver transplantation, multi-organ insufficiency rescue treatment in the domestic leading position.
The department now has one doctoral supervisor and one master's supervisor, and is responsible for the teaching of the eight-year and five-year undergraduates of the medical specialty of Sichuan University, as well as the teaching and internship of the two courses of the Department of Medical Technology, namely, "Critical Care Monitoring" and "Mechanical Ventilation". It is also responsible for the clinical internship training of our master's and doctoral students, and has trained more than 20 masters and 2 doctors in ICU. As one of the four bases designated by the Ministry of Health for national critical care training, it is responsible for the training and education of critical care personnel in the southwest and northwest regions. Every year, it enrolls more than 60 trainees in the Critical Care Medicine Training Program, and has now enrolled more than 20 trainees.
The ICU of West China Hospital of Sichuan University, in line with the West China spirit of "Virtue, Excellence, Practicality and Innovation", implements people-oriented humanized management, and the nursing staff always keep in mind the service tenet of "Patient-centeredness", with its good medical ethics, medical style, excellent technology, and excellent quality. The nursing staff always keep in mind the service tenet of "patient-centered", and with their good medical ethics, exquisite technology, warm and considerate service and hard-working spirit, the hospital has won the heartfelt praises from the medical staff and patients, and has achieved great social and economic benefits.
In 1997, ICU of West China Hospital of Sichuan University became one of the four large-scale teaching hospitals in the country's critical care medicine training base, which organizes 1-2 national critical care medicine training courses for half a year to 1 year every year, and carries out 60 hours of lectures and 12 hours of mini-lectures in each period. National Continuing Education Program "National Critical Care Nursing Progress Training Course" is held for 1-2 periods, with 36 hours of lectures and 6 hours of study tours, and since 2006, National Continuing Education Program "National ICU Nurse Specialist Training Course" is held for 1 period every year, with 26 hours of lectures and 6 hours of study tours. Starting from 2007, the national continuing education program "National Wound Care Seminar" was held once a year, with 26 hours of lectures and 6 hours of skills training; starting from 2007, the national continuing education program "National Training Course on Critical Care Monitoring and Skills" was held once a year, with 26 hours of lectures and 6 hours of skills training. The national continuing education program "Advanced Seminar on Mechanical Ventilation", the national continuing education program "Advanced Seminar on Sedation and Analgesia for Critically Ill Patients", and the provincial continuing education program "Advanced Training Course on Clinical Nutrition for Critically Ill Patients" are held once a year, with a special lecture of 36 hours and a clinical training of 3 hours each. Trainees come from all over the country, and have made outstanding contributions to the delivery of critical medical and nursing backbones for major hospitals in China, especially in the southwest.
In 2006, West China Hospital initiated a 4-month-1-year in-hospital ICU nurse specialist training, training implementation by the hospital's post-graduation education department unified management, the students through the Department of Nursing unified assessment, selection into the training. The in-hospital specialized nurse training is led by specialists in the department, and the training is implemented in the form of lectures on critical care topics, business study rooms, skill demonstrations, and one-on-one teaching in clinical shadowing. Trainees pass the mid-term and final two theoretical and skills assessment, and then obtain the certificate of completion issued by the Ministry of Education of West China Hospital of Sichuan University after graduation. In 2010, the ICU of West China Hospital passed the evaluation of "ICU Specialized Nurse Training Base in Sichuan Province" organized by Sichuan Department of Health and Sichuan Nursing Society, and formally became the "ICU Specialized Nurse Training Base in Sichuan Province", with trainees from all levels of hospitals throughout the province and even the whole country. The trainees come from all levels of hospitals in the province and the whole country. The training is a month of critical care medicine theory and 2 months of clinical practice (including business clinic, skills demonstration, clinical follow-up and other forms), the completion of the theory, skills and comprehensive assessment of qualified, to obtain the Sichuan Provincial Department of Health issued by the "Sichuan Province ICU nurse specialist qualification certificate. ICU nurses return to their respective workplaces, to become the backbone of the critical care.
The ICU nursing staff of West China Hospital of Sichuan University strives for excellence in their professional knowledge and skills, keeps making progress, and utilizes their spare time to participate in a variety of continuing education and learning and academic exchanges at home and abroad, so as to improve their own business quality, and 203 nursing staffs have successively obtained nursing college and undergraduate diplomas or above. Nurses actively carry out new technology, new business, seriously summarize experience, research and study, participate in books and write academic papers. So far, more than 90 papers have been published in national and provincial academic journals***. She has edited 5 chapters of the second edition of the unified textbook "Surgical Nursing" of the Ministry of Health; 1 chapter of the series of textbook "Progress of Nursing" of the national continuing medical education program; 1 chapter of "Critical Care Therapeutics" of the Department of Medical Technology/Respiratory Therapy of West China Clinical School of Medicine of Sichuan University; 2 chapters of the 11th Five-Year Plan textbook "Intensive Care Nursing" of the Ministry of Health, and 4 nursing monographs **** 4 chapters; responsible for organizing and editing the Sichuan Province ICICP. chapters; responsible for organizing and editing the training materials for ICU specialist nurses in Sichuan Province. At present, ICU undertakes the classroom teaching, clinical apprenticeship and clinical internship teaching of undergraduate acute and critical care nursing at Sichuan University, clinical internship teaching of nursing master's degree students, specialization and network undergraduate teaching, and clinical teaching of post-graduation education standardized training nurses at West China Hospital of Sichuan University, which has made remarkable achievements for the cultivation of nursing talents.
The Department is a member of the Chinese Medical Association Critical Care Medicine Branch of the Standing Committee unit, Chinese Medical Association of Critical Care Medicine Physician Vice President of the unit and the Chinese Pathophysiology and Critical Care Medicine Society Standing Committee unit; Sichuan Medical Association Critical Care Medical Specialty Committee Chairman of the unit, Sichuan Nursing Association of Critical Care Specialty Committee Chairman of the unit and the Sichuan Provincial Critical Care Specialist Nurse Training Base.
The department has strong scientific research strength and better research conditions, with a specialized laboratory and a library. The department has been awarded the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the Ministry of Health Fund, provincial funds and many horizontal research projects. The department has conducted in-depth researches in the fields of multiorgan insufficiency, ARDS treatment, clinical nutrition, intestinal mucosal barrier and infection, analgesia and sedation, antibiotics and endotoxin release, and nosocomial infection control, and so on.
Relying on the strong medical, teaching and research strength of West China Hospital and the unremitting efforts of all the staff of the department, the Department of Critical Care Medicine aims to have a higher and faster development in the new century, to make its own contribution to the development of China's critical care medicine, and to provide first-rate and high-quality medical care for critically ill patients.