Taikang Xianlin Gulou Hospital, affiliated with Nanjing University School of Medicine, is a large-scale tertiary hospital in Nanjing under Taikang Insurance Group, a Fortune 500 company. It is affiliated with Nanjing University School of Medicine, Wuhan University Clinical College, and Mount Sinai Hospital in the United States. The second phase of the hospital is about to open, with nearly 1400 hospital beds by then.

EICU is an important component unit of the emergency medicine department, with 18 monitoring beds and equipped with advanced critical care equipment and intelligent medical information systems required for monitoring, treatment, nursing, and rehabilitation, including high flow oxygen therapy equipment, non-invasive and invasive ventilators, blood purification equipment, hemodynamic monitoring equipment, critical ultrasound equipment, extracorporeal life support ECMO, critical rehabilitation equipment, fiberoptic bronchoscope, cerebral oxygen metabolism monitoring device, etc.

EICU has implemented shock monitoring and treatment strategies that combine large circulation microcirculation, long-term mechanical ventilation and weaning strategies, cool treatment strategies for severe traumatic brain injury, early severe rehabilitation strategies, protective lung ventilation strategies, severe multi-point hemodynamic analysis plans, multi-modal cerebral perfusion metabolic monitoring plans, respiratory and circulatory support technology under severe ultrasound guidance, in vitro life support technology, nutritional therapy technology, etc.

Improving the survival rate, quality of life, and long-term prognosis of critically ill patients is our top priority for development. We are committed to making EICU a compassionate and respectful place for the value of life, practicing the paradigm of critical care physiological and psychological care, advanced services for critical care, and palliative care for critical care. Our relentless pursuit is to balance treatment intensity with humanistic warmth.

Dr. Xie Zhiyi, the leader of the discipline, graduated from Peking Union Medical College with a Ph.D., chief physician, and former doctoral supervisor at Tsinghua University. Based on advanced critical care medical equipment, leading critical care technologies and concepts, we will build a proactive and first-class critical care team through standardized teaching and training, and conduct clinical practical research, providing better medical services for more critically ill patients.