Formation and development of "critical care medicine with Chinese characteristics"
10.3760/cma.j.issn.2095-4352.2019.09.001
- VernacularTitle: "中国特色危重病医学"的形成与发展
- Collective Name:Editorial Board of Chinese Critical Care Medicine
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
Critical care;
Emergency medicine;
Integrated traditional Chinese and Western medicine
- From:
Chinese Critical Care Medicine
2019;31(9):1051-1060
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
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Abstract:
In the late 1970s, the critical care emergency medicine has sprung up in Western developed countries, but it was still a blank in China. At that time, the mortality of critically ill patients in China was very high, and the traditional treatment mode could hardly revive patients. How to improve the cure rate? The strong sense of responsibility of doctors prompted the first group of integrated traditional Chinese and Western medicine first-aid workers to find the answers. Professor Jinda Wang, director of Emergency Medicine Specialized Committee, Chinese Association of Integrative Medicine at that time, was the leader of the group. In 1974, Professor Jinda Wang innovated to break the forbidden area that Chinese medicine could only treat "chronic diseases", broke the original division and professional boundaries, took the lead in introducing the world's modern first-aid medicine into China, and applied traditional Chinese medicine to emergency medicine. He creatively established a new interdisciplinary subject: Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine for Critical Care Medicine in the First Center Hospital of Tianjin. The acute "three failure" rescue research room and rescue ward was also the first medical unit of modern critical care medicine that combined the medical treatment and scientific research in China, which served as a base to train professionals from all parts of the country. "Scientific progress should not stay barricaded inside. We should not only introduce advanced parts from abroad, but also give full play to our own advantages so as to produce a new synergistic effect. In today's treatment of critically ill patients, both Chinese and Western medicine had their own certain advantages. The purpose of integrated Chinese and Western medicine treatment of critically ill patients is to take the advantages of both, achieve the best curative effect, improve the cure rate, reduce the mortality, rather than compare the proportion of Western medicine and Chinese medicine in treatment. Under the guidance of this thought, China's integrated traditional Chinese and Western medicine for critical care medicine has developed rapidly, and is laying the foundation for the development of modern critical care medicine in China. China's integrated traditional Chinese and Western medicine for critical care medicine is truly "critical care medicine with Chinese characteristics".
