Center for Anesthesiology and Resuscitation

I. HISTORY OF ESTABLISHMENT

The Center for Anesthesiology and Surgical Intensive Care, formerly the Department of Anesthesiology and Resuscitation, was founded on December 15, 2000 (pursuant to Decision No. 4575/BYT dated November 17, 2000, by the Ministry of Health). It was formed by merging three operating units: the surgical theater under the Department of Surgery, the theater under the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, and the combined theater of the Dentistry-Otorhinolaryngology-Ophthalmology departments. After over 20 years of continuous growth, the Center for Anesthesiology and Surgical Intensive Care was officially established on July 4, 2023.

II. ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE

• Director: Assoc. Prof. Nguyen Toan Thang, MD, PhD
• Vice Directors:
  • Nguyen Hong Thuy, MD, PhD
  • Vu Van Kham, MD, PhD
• Chief Nurse: Nguyen Duc Bo, MSc.
• Union President: Tran Duc Minh, MSc, MD
• Youth Union Secretary: Nguyen Giap Viet Dung, MD

Personnel: The Center has 200 staff members, including 39 physicians (3 of whom are concurrent faculty from Hanoi Medical University), 142 nurses and technicians, 01 accountant, 01 medical secretary, and 17 orderlies.

• Academic qualifications: 01 Associate Professor, 02 PhDs, 02 Level II Specialists, 01 Level I Specialist, 33 Masters of Medicine, and 08 Masters of Nursing.

Facilities (Buildings P & Q):

• Building Q: 10 modern operating rooms and 18 post-anesthesia care unit (PACU) beds. Specializing in kidney transplants, neurosurgery, orthopedics, laparoscopy, urology, ENT, and plastic surgery.
• Building P: 6 operating rooms and 12 PACU beds dedicated to emergency surgeries, maxillofacial surgery, and obstetrics/gynecology.
• Surgical Intensive Care Unit: 42 beds for pre- and post-operative intensive care for critically ill and polytrauma patients.

III. FUNCTIONS AND MISSIONS

• Clinical Services: Ensuring safe anesthesia and effective pain management for complex surgeries at a terminal-level hospital, including advanced procedures like laparoscopic liver/pancreas/esophageal resection, lung resection, neurovascular surgery, and management of patients with complex comorbidities.
• Education: Serving as a primary training and practice facility for Hanoi Medical University and Bach Mai Medical College.
• Research: Conducting scientific research, quality improvement projects, and innovating specialized anesthesiology techniques.
• Direction of Healthcare (Project 1816): Providing professional support, Telehealth consultations, and technology transfer to provincial and district hospitals nationwide.
• International Cooperation: Partnering with experts from Japan (NCGM) and Europe for professional exchange. Hosting international experts and sending staff for advanced training abroad.

IV. KEY TECHNIQUES & ACHIEVEMENTS

With over 25,000 surgeries performed annually, the Center operates under the motto: “Safe Anesthesia – Effective Resuscitation.”

• Advanced Airway Management: Difficult intubation using flexible bronchoscopes and video laryngoscopes; retrograde intubation; selective lung ventilation.
• Pain Management: Target-Controlled Infusion (TCI); Multimodal analgesia; Patient-Controlled Analgesia (PCA).
• Ultrasound-Guided Regional Anesthesia: Epidural, spinal, nerve plexus, and peripheral nerve blocks; Erector Spinae Plane (ESP) block; infiltration anesthesia.
• Intensive Care Techniques: Hemodynamic monitoring (USCOM, PiCCO, ESCCO); blood purification for septic shock, acute rhabdomyolysis, and multi-organ failure; Targeted
• Temperature Management (TTM) for critical stroke patients; Plasma Exchange (PEX) for acute liver/pancreatitis; VTE prevention and specialized wound care (NPWT).