The Department of Respiratory and Intensive Care Medicine of Beijing Tiantan Hospital, Capital Medical University was established in the 1990s as a separate department from the Respiratory Group of the Department of Internal Medicine. In 2002, the Respiratory Intensive Care Unit (RICU) and the Tracheoscopy Room were established. 2020, it was renamed the Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine (PCCM). At present, it is the standardized construction of the national PCCM department of the tertiary hospital standard unit, the core unit of the National Respiratory Clinical Research Center, the Chinese Physicians Association of respiratory endoscopist training base.
The Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine (PCCM) has a well-established set of specialty groups, including respiratory intervention, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease/smoking cessation, pulmonary infections, pulmonary vascular disease, respiratory critical care, asthma/respiratory physiology, interstitial lung disease, lung cancer/pleural disease, and sleep respiratory disease, etc., The department has corresponding specialist and professional outpatient clinics.
The general ward has 34 beds, 10 RICU beds, and 2 sleep monitoring wards.
The Pulmonary Function Room is capable of performing pulmonary ventilation function, bronchodilator test, bronchial excitation test, expiratory NO, and preoperative pulmonary function tests.
The bronchoscopy room can carry out almost all respiratory endoscopic interventional techniques, including bronchoscopic alveolar lavage (BAL), transbronchoscopic mucosal biopsy (TBB), transbronchoscopic transbronchial lung biopsy (TBLB), transbronchoscopic ultrasound-guided needle aspiration biopsy (EBUS-TBNA), airway foreign body forceps removal, transbronchoscopic ultrasound-guided transsheath tube biopsy (EBUS-GS), peripheral small lesions ultrasound-guided transbronchoscopic lung biopsy, bronchoscopy of benign and malignant stenosis of the airway various diagnostic and therapeutic techniques such as endotracheal stenting, rigid bronchoscopy, argon plasma coagulation (APC), electrocautery, cryotherapy, tracheal/endobronchial balloon dilatation, and so on. In addition, bedside bronchoscopy can be applied to diagnosing and treating critically ill patients.
There are currently 25 doctors in the department, inclu
