Integrated Departments of Intensive Care —
Princess Margaret Hospital and Yan Chai Hospital
The Intensive Care Unit of Princess Margaret Hospital is currently located on the second floor of Block C. It has been serving the hospital since 1986. In September 1997, two additional ICU beds came into service to make a total of fourteen ICU beds in the Unit. Following the SARS epidemic in 2003, the ICU expanded and on 1st July 2003 reopened with 28 ICU bed spaces of which 20 were in service. Further developments following the SARS epidemic was the creation of a “temporary” nine bed isolation ICU in Block EF in ward F4. On the 22nd June the Hospital Authority Infectious Diseases Centre at Princess Margaret Hospital opened. This is a 108 bed infectious diseases block which contains a 12 bed ICU designed specifically to care for critically ill infectious disease patients.
The Intensive Care Unit of Princess Margaret Hospital is a recognized centre for postgraduate fellowship training in Intensive Care Medicine by the Hong Kong College of Anaesthesiologists, the Hong Kong College of Physicians and the Joint Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine of the Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists and the Australian and New Zealand College of Physicians.
The Intensive Care Unit of Yan Chai Hospital is currently located on the fifth floor of Block B. It has been serving the hospital since 1994. The Intensive Care Unit of Yan Chai Hospital is a recognized centre for postgraduate fellowship training in Intensive Care Medicine by the Hong Kong College of Anaesthesiologists.
The two Intensive Care Units integrated in August 2006 under a single Chief of Service. Both ICUs are closed ICU catering for surgical and medical critically ill adult patients.