Founded on May 12, 1992, the Department of Critical Care Medicine of West China Hospital, Sichuan University, is now a critical care center with 8 intensive care units, 1 respiratory therapy center, 1 research center of critical care medicine and more than 20 medical groups. Since 2016, it has been ranked the fourth in Chinese Critical Care Medicine specialty list according to the national ranking of Fudan University for four consecutive years. The Department has six sub-specialties on the main campus including Comprehensive Intensive Care Unit (CICU), Surgical/Trauma Intensive Care Unit (SICU/TICU), Neurological Intensive Care Unit (NICU), Respiratory Intensive Care Unit (RICU), Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU), Cardiothoracic Intensive Care Unit (CTICU)）and two branches（Shangjin ICU and Wenjiang ICU）. With 225 beds and more than 700 medical staff, it owns world-class equipments for organ function monitoring, support and treatment, and  for clinical research, teaching and ICU simulations as well. The Department has an excellent research team and a well-equipped laboratory which covers 600 square meters, capable of undertaking critical care medicine-related basic research. The Department also owns many excellent clinical subgroups including Respiratory Therapy Team, ECMO Team, Critical Ultrasound and Visualized Care Team and Neural Monitoring Team. The total annual admissions are more than 10,000. Furthermore, the Department is responsible for class and clinical practice teaching for undergraduate, 8-year and postgraduate medical students, which is the largest teaching base of critical care medicine in China. It is one of the first batch of national key clinical specialties, national training base for specialist physicians in critical care medicine (CCM), clinical research center and quality control center for CCM in Sichuan, standardized training base for respiratory therapists and specialist nurses in CCM in Sichuan Province. It has undertaken more than 20 projects of National Natural Science Foundation of China, National Health Commission, Chinese Medical Association, Sichuan Provincial Health Commission and Sichuan Provincial Science and Technology Department, and applied for 30 patents, and published more than 300 articles in the past five years. In addition, the Department undertakes major disaster rescue at home and abroad and has performed excellently in many rescue work, and it took part in the establishment of the China International Emergency Medical Team (Sichuan), which was accredited by World Health Organization in 2018, as the world's first non-military Type III international Emergency Medical Team (Type 3 EMT). It's worth mentioning that the Department owns word-class system of quality control and informatization construction, which includes a critical care medicine quality control system of Sichuan province, a clinical information collection-analyze system, an early warning system for critically ill patients and an information platform for scientific research. The Department has established a long-term cooperation and exchanges with University of Washington and Mayo Clinic in U.S., and the Cambridge Intensivists in U.K.

Comprehensive Intensive Care Unit (CICU)

Founded on May 12th, 1992, the Comprehensive Intensive Care Unit is the first comprehensive ICU in West China Hospital and one of the first ICUs in China. It has 50 beds and more than 160 staff, consisting of four medical groups, treating critically ill patients with various causes like shock and infection, and patients after major surgery or liver transplantation. The CICU receives more than 1,700 patients every year, with the utilization rate of beds over 95%.

Surgical/Trauma Intensive Care Unit (SICU/TICU)

The Surgical Intensive Care Unit was founded in 2005 and merged with Trauma Intensive Care Unit founded in 2019. The ward of Surgical/Trauma Intensive Care Unit (SICU/TICU) has 30 beds and 100 staff with expertise in the perioperative organ function support, comprehensive treatment of combined trauma injury, and long-distance transportation of critically patients. They mainly treat patients with critical diseases during the perioperative period, such as hepatobiliary and pancreatic surgery, vascular surgery, gastrointestinal surgery, orthopedics, neurosurgery, otolaryngology, thoracic surgery, thyroid and breast surgery and patients with all kinds of severe trauma. The SICU/TICU teams participated in the rescues of Wenchuan earthquake in Sichuan, Yushu earthquake in Qinghai, Yiliang earthquake in Yunnan, Lushan earthquake in Sichuan and other emergencies. They have established a systematic protocol for assessing and treating critically ill patients after disaster, and have been commended for its highly-effective approach many times.

Founded in 2010, the Neurological Intensive Care Unit contains 23 beds with more than 90 staff. It mainly treats patients with severe diseases in nervous system including cerebrovascular disease, traumatic brain injury, brain tumors, central nervous system infection, immune encephalopathy, status epilepticus and so on. With world-class equipments for evaluation of multimodal neural function, it established the dynamic evaluation models of cerebral blood flow, electrophysiology, intracranial pressure, cerebral metabolism and hemodynamic, and eventually built up a systematic platform for treating severe and complex neurological diseases. 

Respiratory Intensive Care Unit (RICU)

Founded in December 2013, the Respiratory Intensive Care Unit (RICU) contains 20 beds. It adopts a single-ward design, equipped with an independent indoor temperature and humidity control system, a positive and negative pressure isolation ward and a family video visits system. Critically ill patients with common or infectious respiratory diseases, and patients after lung transplantation are admitted here.

Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU)

Founded on May 6, 2010, the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) has 26 beds and 70 staff. It has a multidisciplinary team for heart transplantation and ECMO team for Children and infants. The main admissions of PICU are critically ill patients with congenital heart disease and heart transplantation, neonates and children after major pediatric surgery and children with liver transplantation. Additionally, it has established a long-term partnership with the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, Canada where physicians and nurses visit annually.

Cardiothoracic Intensive Care Unit (CTICU)

Founded in 1991, the Cardiothoracic Intensive Care Unit (CTICU) has 20 beds and 60 medical, nursing and technical staff. It mainly treats patients with cardiovascular surgery, such as coronary artery bypass grafting, valvoplasty and valve replacement and aortic dissection. The CTICU treats nearly 300 critically ill patients every month, and has plenty of experience in respiratory and circulatory support, severe infection treatment, clinical nutrition, and internal environmental maintaining of patients with cardiovascular surgery.

Shangjin Intensive Care Unit (SJ-ICU) 

SJ-ICU has 43 beds, mainly treating critically ill patients with mycocardial infarction, stroke, COPD, various shock, respiratory failure, MODS and severe trauma, or patients after major surgery. It owns clinical subgroups to support special patients, such as continuous renal replacement therapy team, nutrition therapy team, sedation and analgesia team, and team for cardiac surgery.

Wenjiang Intensive Care Unit ( WJ-ICU) 

WJ-ICU is one of the branches of Department of Critical Care Medicine, which was founded in 2013. It has 13 beds and 30 medical, nursing and technical staff, mainly treating critically ill patients after major and complex lung cancer surgery, and patients with respiration system diseases, and patients who need to recover for various reasons. Additionally, it has rich experience in hyperbaric oxygen therapy for critically ill patients. 

Laboratory of Critical Care Medicine of WCHSU

Founded in 2014, the laboratory of Critical Care Medicine of West China Hospital of Sichuan University (WCHSU) is located in Singapore-Sichuan Hi-tech Innovation Park. It owns world-class equipments for research and more than 70 researchers, including full-time PI, postdoctoral, doctoral, graduate students and technicians. The main research areas are organ function support, analgesia and sedation, respiratory therapy of critically ill patients, and immunotherapy, blood glucose control and prognosis of patients with sepsis/septic shock. It has undertaken more than 20 projects of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the provincial Science and Technology Department and others with a total funding of about 10 million Yuan. It has published almost 80 SCI papers with a cumulative impact factor of more than 360 points.