Looking forward to the brilliant future of Critical Care Medicine

In July 2008,critical care medicine (CCM) has become the second-class discipline of clinical medicine in China (code:320.58).Intensive Care Unit (ICU) has also been approved as the first-class clinical subject (code:28) and has become an independent hospital department.Doctors engaged on critical care medicine have their own professional subject area from then on.Guideline of construction and management of critical care medicine in China published by Ministry of Health is the guiding document for the establishment of ICU in all kinds of hospitals.It is high time that we evaluated the CCM status in our province according to the requirement of guideline so as to find the direction of development.