SAHZU Emergency Center is one of the first of its kind in China and is a founding member of the Chinese Association of Emergency Medicine. In 2019, it was designated as the National Trauma Care Center in eastern China. It ranks the third in Emergency Medicine and the seventh in Burns in the Fudan Best Chinese Hospital Ranking 2020.

As a nationally renowned trauma center, it has rich expertise in the management of critically injured patients and complex, difficult, and severe cases. 

The center is equipped with state-of-the-art facilities, such as world-class one-stop emergency resuscitation units. Its cutting-edge 5G-connected ambulances can improve pre-hospital communications, and they are a crucial part of “prehospital service-trauma unit-ICU-hospitalization-rehabilitation” process. To ensure prompt emergency responses in case of major public events, SAHZU initiated a unique hospital-wide code system in China.

The burn team at SAHZU is another vital part of the Center. In 1978, the team performed a miracle by rescuing a severely burned female steelworker with 100% burn area and 74% third-degree burns — a groundbreaking success in China. In 2014, the team worked another miracle: 19 severely burned adult patients, including seven with 60% burn area, were managed within one hour after arrival at the hospital. All 19 patients survived thanks to SAHZU’s quick response, well-structured emergency system, and mature mechanism. Additionally, to treat extensive or severe skin injury, SAHZU burn physicians carried out research in developing artificial dermis and co-invented an antimicrobial peptide (ε-polylysine) and catechol-based anti-infection wound dressing.

The center has launched and been running the World Journal of Emergency Medicine, the only SCIE-indexed emergency medicine journal in the Chinese mainland with the second highest impact factor in Asia.