MICU

Key figures

-Location:9th Floor, No.3 ?Building

-46 Staff:7 doctors(1 chief-physician,3 attending doctors and 3 residents),39 nurses?

-14 ward beds

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Introduction

MICU was established in 2012.?Our clinical team includes intensivists, critical care nurses and nurse practitioners with advanced training in critical care. We strive for clinical improvement by integrating education, evidence-based medicine and research. We provide patient center medical care for all patients and believing that collaborative team work and professionalism are necessary for ensuring the quality and safety of care. Our duty is to closely monitor?the critical-ill patient?and provide timely and effective treatment, such as airway management and mechanical ventilation, continuous renal replacement therapy (CRRT), hemodynamics and oxygen metabolism management.

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We provide undergraduate and graduate program in clinical medicine specialty and nursing specialty, as well as residency and advanced study program. 2 students have graduated from the doctoral program,?while 5 students have gained master degree. In the past 5 years, the department obtained 6 research grants at the national and ministerial-level and has published more than 10 article on English journal?covered by SCI.

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Diagnosis and Treatment

Medical Intensive Care Medicine(MICU) of the Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yet San University provides expert?and multidisciplinary care to critically ill patients, including:

Management of shock

Respiratory failure; ARDS

Primary pulmonary hypertension vasodilator trials

Multisystem organ failure (including cardiac, renal and hepatic)

Sepsis

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Facilities and Apparatus

The main instrumentations in our department are listed as follow:

1.?Invasive mechanical ventilator (10)

2.?Noninvasive mechanical ventilation? (3)

3.?The nasal high flow of wetting therapeutic apparatus(2)

4.??Fiberbronchoscope ?(4)

5.?Gambro Prismaflex (4)

6.?EV1000 monitor (1)

7.?GE monitor(14)

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