Respiration Department
    The Respiration Department in Xiyuan Hospital founded in 1970 is the earliest established Chinese-West combined research base on respiratory disease in China. Throughout over thirty years, the Respiration Department has been enhanced with the establishment of specialty wards, the independent out-patient, the Lung Function Room, the Electronic Bronchoscopy Room, the Blood-gas Analysis Room, and the comprehensive respiratory disease research room with sleep monitoring. It has been the Chinese medical clinical pharmacology base of the Chinese Ministry of Health on respiratory disease and has been successively certified by the Beijing Municipal Health Bureau and the China Academy of Chinese Medicine Scientist as the key Chinese-West combined disciplines and the specialist medical centre of respiratory disease, as well as the focused specialist in the 11th Five-Year Plan of the State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine.
    The Respiration Department has possessed a complete Chinese-West combined treatment system on bronchial asthma, COPD, cor pulmonale disease and pulmonary fibrosis, which keeps the leading position in the domestic and a number of relevant clinical and experimental researches have been rewarded scientific and technical achievement prizes. The department is in charge of the multiple research work from the Capital Medical Development Fund, the State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine, the State Ministry of Science and Technology, Beijing Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine and the China Institute of Traditional Chinese Medicine. Now the department has the respiratory clinic service characterized with traditional Chinese treatment: out-patient pulmonary fibrosis, allergic - out-patient asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease clinic, and so forth whose academic features is distinguished by the diagnosis and treatment of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, asthma, and pulmonary fibrosis, the rescue of respiratory failure and respiratory rescue support. The respiratory wards have several imported breathing machine and multi-function bedside monitors while the medical respiratory intensive care unit is more enhanced with the application of invasive ventilation, non-invasive ventilation in the treatment to the heavy-risk patients of respiratory failure, acute lung injury, acute respiratory distress syndrome, severe Bronchial asthma, severe pulmonary heart disease, chronic respiratory failure and acute pulmonary edema and so forth.