Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine Dept.(PCCM)

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Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine Dept.(PCCM)

Brief introduction

Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine of Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, is the National Key Disciplines, the National Key Clinical Specialty Construction Project Unit, and the Member of Chinese Thoracic Society (CTS). The department also has one State Key Laboratory of Respiratory Diseases authorized by Ministry of Health (now the Natioanl Health Commission), which can provide powerful technology platform for scientific research. It is also the Collaborative Innovation Platform for tumor cell-derived microparticle-based targeted chemotherapy, the Clinical Research Center and the Engineering Research Center in Hubei Province, and the Clinical Research Center for Pleural Diseases in Wuhan. Meanwhile, it also has the National Standardized Training Base for Residents/Specialists and the National Clinical Drug Trial Base. In addition, the main campus has a total of 100 beds in three inpatient areas, including 16 beds in the respiratory intensive care unit (RICU). Besides, the West Campus occupied 42 beds, which belongs to the integrated management of departments.


The department is equipped with respiratory disease research room, pulmonary function examination room, respiratory endoscopy room (including the outpatient and inpatient of main campus, west campus endoscopy room) and sleep apnea monitoring room, with various of lung function detectors and airway reaction detectors, medical thoracoscopy, electronic bronchoscope and other related interventional devices, polysomnography monitors, the department also has many types of ventilators, vibration row phlegm machine and other advanced equipment.


Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine mainly focuses on the diagnosis and treatment of respiratory diseases, including COPD, asthma, pneumonia, pleural diseases, lung cancer, bronchiectasis, pulmonary embolism, interstitial pulmonary diseases, pneumothorax, sleep disordered breathing and various difficult and critical diseases of the respiratory system, and has gradually formedits own disciplinary characteristics. In 2010, the department took the lead in carrying out internal thoracoscopy in Hubei province, and the positive diagnosis rate of pleural effusion reached more than 95%. The Respiratory Critical Care Unit (RICU) has successfully treated many critically patients transferred from other hospitals by relying on rich clinical experience and advanced diagnosis and treatment equipment. The department has skillfully carried out bronchoscopy interventional therapy, which performs less trauma, quicker effect and more economical than other methods. Besides, the innovative development of tumor cell-derived microparticle-based targeted chemotherapy has brought good news to patients with late stage lung cancer.


The department has made great achievements in scientific research. Many respiratory diseases have developed basic medicine and clinical research field comprehensively, especially in lung cancer, pleural disease, interstitial pulmonary disease, COPD and asthma, and formed a characteristic research area. In recent years, the grants from National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) in the department have ranked one of the leading departments in the country for many times.


For education, the department has been awarded as Advanced Teaching Unit of Union Hospital for many consecutive years. In addition to teaching undergraduates, it has also trained a number of outstanding master's graduate and doctoral students and residents with standardized training, thus providing a large number of qualified personnel for medical clinical and scientific research work.