Faculty of Medicine,
The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Dr. WONG Wai Tat

Professor

Dr. WONG Wai Tat

MBBS (HK), FRCP (Edin), FCICM, FHKAM (Medicine), LLM (Medical Ethics and Law)

Clinical Professional Consultant (Associate Professor of Practice)
Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care
The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Research Fellow (by courtesy)

Centre for Bioethics

The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Honorary Associate Consultant

Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care

Prince of Wales Hospital

As the recipient of the University Education Award and Faculty Teaching Award in 2024, I teach undergraduates in acute medicine, anaesthesia, communication skills, professionalism, and clinical ethics. As part of the BASIC collaboration, I contribute as an author, coordinator, and instructor for the Basic Assessment and Support of Intensive Care (BASIC) course. My research spans medical education, clinical ethics, ICU end-of-life care, mechanical ventilation, and infectious diseases. Additionally, I serve as vice-chairperson of the Hong Kong Society of Critical Care Medicine (HKSCCM) and chairperson of the Asian Pacific Bioethics Education Network (APBEN).

Dr. WONG Wai Tat

Publications

For details about citations arising from my publications and links to online versions of some of the publications, refer to:
http://www.researcherid.com/rid/H-1161-2014 (Researcher ID:H-1161-2014)

  • Turnbull M, Yu C, Wong WT. Using communication simulations with multilingual medical students in Hong Kong: Findings of a linguistic and discursive analysis. Journal of Language and Social Psychology 2024 (submitted and under review).
 
  • Yuen JK, See C, Cheung JTK, Lum CM, Lee JS, Wong WT. Can teaching serious illness communication skills foster multidimensional empathy? A mixed-methods study. BMC Med Educ. 2023 Jan;23(1) 20.
 
  • Cho C, Ko WYK, Ngan OMY, Wong WT. Exploring clinical dilemma and moral distress through medical students’ eyes: A mixed-method. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2022 Aug
 
  • Joynt GM, Wong WT, Ling L, Lee A. Medical students and professionalism – Do the hidden curriculum and current role models fail our future doctors? Medical teacher 2017:1-5.
 
  • Wong WT, Gomersall CD, & Ling L. Making critical care education BASIC: a collaborative approach to training. ICU Management and Practice 2017; 17:216-9.
 
  • Ling L, Gomersall CD, Samy W, Joynt GM, Leung CCH, Wong WT, Lee A. The Effect of a Freely Available Flipped Classroom Course on Health Care Worker Patient Safety Culture: A Prospective Controlled Study. Journal of medical Internet research 2016; 18:e180.
  • Ka-Hin Lam D., Wong, WT. and Joynt G.M., A study of the documentation of withholding and withdrawing life-sustaining therapies in a tertiary intensive care unit in Hong Kong. Hong Kong J Emergency Med. 2024
 
  • Raith EP, Choong SK, Nicholls M, Wong WT, Myatra SN, Pradian E, Egi M, Suh GY, Deva SR, Mendsaikhan N, Adhikari S, Grayda JM, Chan MC, Rungruanghiranya S, Binh NG, Loh S, Ku D, Reshaping Post-pandemic Critical Care Collaboration in the Asia-Pacific Region: Report of the First Asia-Pacific Critical Care Societies Summit, CHEST Critical Care. 2024
 
  • Joynt GM, Ling L, Wong WT, Lipman J. Therapeutic drug monitoring of carbapenem antibiotics in critically ill patients: an overview of principles, recommended dosing regimens, and clinical outcomes. Expert Rev Clin Pharmacol. 2023 Jul-Dec;16(8):703-714.
 
  • Roberts JA, Sime F, Lipman J, Hernández-Mitre MP, Baptista JP, Brüggemann RJ, Darvall J, De Waele JJ, Dimopoulos G, Lefrant JY, Mat Nor MB, Rello J, Seoane L, Slavin MA, Valkonen M, Venditti M, Wong WT, Zeitlinger M, Roger C. A protocol for an international, multicentre pharmacokinetic study for Screening Antifungal Exposure in Intensive Care Units: The SAFE-ICU study. Crit Care Resusc. 2023 May 20;25(1):1-5.
 
  • Wang G, Lam WKJ, Ling L, Ma ML, Ramakrishnan S, Chan DCT, Lee WS, Cheng SH, Chan RWY, Yu SCY, Tse IOL, Wong WT, Jiang P, Chiu RWK, Allen Chan KC, Lo YMD. Fragment Ends of Circulating Microbial DNA as Signatures for Pathogen Detection in Sepsis. Clin Chem. 2023 Feb 1;69(2):189-201
 
  • Chu RBH, Zhao S, Zhang JZ, Chan KCK, Ng PY, Chan C, Fong KM, Au SY, Yeung AWT, Chan JKH, Tsang HH, Law KI, Chow FL, Lam KN, Chan KM, Dharmangadan M, Wong WT, Joynt GM, Wang MH, Ling L. Comparison of COVID-19 with influenza A in the ICU: a territory-wide, retrospective, propensity matched cohort on mortality and length of stay. BMJ Open. 2023;13(7):e067101.
 
  • Ling L, Lai CKC, Lui G, Yeung ACM, Chan HC, Cheuk CHS, Cheung AN, Chang LC, Chiu LCS, Zhang JZ, Wong WT, Hui DSC, Wong CK, Chan PKS, Chen Z*. Characterization of upper airway microbiome across severity of COVID-19 during hospitalization and treatment. Front Cell Infect Microbiol. 2023;13:1205401.
 
  • So C, Ling L, Wong WT, Zhang JZ, Ho CM, Ng PY, Shum HP, Yeung AWT, Sin KC, Chan J, Au KF, Liong T, Ho E, Chow FL, Ho L, Chan KM, Joynt GM. Population study on diagnosis, treatment and outcomes of critically ill patients with tuberculosis (2008-2018). Thorax. 2023 Jul;78(7):674-681
 
  • Kumta N, Heffernan AJ, Cotta MO, Wallis SC, Livermore A, Starr T, Wong WT, Joynt GM, Lipman J, Roberts JA. Plasma and Cerebrospinal Fluid Population Pharmacokinetics of Meropenem in Neurocritical Care Patients: a Prospective Two-Center Study. Antimicrob Agents Chemother. 2022 Aug 16;66(8):e0014222.
 
  • Ling L, Wong WT, Lipman J, Joynt GM. A Narrative Review on the Approach to Antimicrobial Use in Ventilated Patients with Multidrug Resistant Organisms in Respiratory Samples-To Treat or Not to Treat? That Is the Question. Antibiotics (Basel). 2022 Mar 27;11(4):452.
 
  • Gullapalli N, Lim ZJ, Ramanathan K, Bihari S, Haji J, Shekar K, Wong WT, Rajamani A, Subramaniam A. Personal protective equipment preparedness in intensive care units during the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic: An Asia-Pacific follow-up survey. Aust Crit Care. 2022 Jan;35(1):5-12.
 
  • Ling L, Chen Z, Lui G, Wong CK, Wong WT, Ng RWY, Tso EYK, Fung KSC, Chan V, Yeung ACM, Hui DSC, Chan PKS. Longitudinal Cytokine Profile in Patients With Mild to Critical COVID-19. Front Immunol. 2021 Dec 6;12:763292.
 
  • Wong WT, Lee A, Gomersall CD, Shek LH, Chan A, So SO, Sin KC, Tang WM, Sinn M, Ling L. Survival of mechanically ventilated ward patients and association with organisational factors: a multicentre prospective study. BMJ Open. 2021 Dec 30;11(12)
 
  • Liu Y, Ling L, Wong SH, Wang MH, Fitzgerald JR, Zou X, Fang S, Liu X, Wang X, Hu W, Chan H, Wang Y, Huang D, Li Q, Wong WT, Choi G, Zou H, Hui DS, Yu J, Tse G, Gin T, Wu WK, Chan MT, Zhang L. Outcomes of respiratory viral-bacterial co-infection in adult hospitalized patients. EClinicalMedicine. 2021 Jun 10;37:100955.
 
  • Rajamani A, Subramaniam A, Shekar K, Haji J, Luo J, Bihari S, Wong WT, Gullapalli N, Renner M, Alcancia CM, Ramanathan K; SPARTAN Collaborative – Small Projects, Audits, Research Trials – Australia/New Zealand. Personal protective equipment preparedness in Asia-Pacific intensive care units during the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic: A multinational survey. Aust Crit Care. 2021 Mar;34(2):135-141.
 
  • Lai VKW, Ho KM, Wong WT, Leung P, Gomersall CD, Underwood MJ, Joynt GM, Lee A. Effect of preoperative education and ICU tour on patient and family satisfaction and anxiety in the intensive care unit after elective cardiac surgery: a randomised controlled trial. BMJ Qual Saf. 2021 Mar;30(3):228-235.
 
  • Tenney JW, Yip JHY, Lee RHY, Wong BCY, Hung KKC, Lam RPK, Wong DKW, Wong WT. Retrospective evaluation of resuscitation medication utilisation in hospitalised adult patients with cardiac arrest. J Cardiol. 2020 Jul;76(1):9-13.
 
  • Ling L, Wong WT, Wan WTP, Choi G, Joynt GM. Infection control in non-clinical areas during COVID-19 pandemic. Anaesthesia. 2020;75(7):962-963.
 
  • Yau DKW, Wong MKH, Wong WT, Gin T, Underwood MJ, Joynt GM, Lee A. PREhabilitation for improving QUality of recovery after ELective cardiac surgery (PREQUEL) study: protocol of a randomised controlled trial. BMJ Open. 2019 May 14;9(5):e027974.
 
  • Leung CCH, Joynt GM, Gomersall CD, Wong WT, Lee A, Ling L, Chan PKS, Lui PCW, Tsoi PCY, Ling CM, Hui M. Comparison of high-flow nasal cannula versus oxygen face mask for environmental bacterial contamination in critically ill pneumonia patients: a randomized controlled crossover trial. J Hosp Infect. 2019 Jan;101(1):84-87.
 
  • See KC, Zhao MY, Nakataki E, Chittawatanarat K, Fang WF, Faruq MO, Wahjuprajitno B, Arabi YM, Wong WT, Divatia JV, Palo JE, Shrestha BR, Nafees KMK, Binh NG, Al Rahma HN, Detleuxay K, Ong V, Phua J; SABA Study Investigators and the Asian Critical Care Clinical Trials Group. Professional burnout among physicians and nurses in Asian intensive care units: a multinational survey. Intensive Care Med. 2018 Dec;44(12):2079-2090
 
  • Wong WT, Phua J, Joynt GM. Worldwide end-of-life practice for patients in ICUs. Current Opinion in Anesthesiology 2018.
 
  • Leung CCH, Pun J, Lock G, Slade D, Gomersall CD, Wong WT, Joynt GM. Exploring the scope of communication content of mechanically ventilated patients. Journal of Critical Care 2017; 44:136-41.
 
  • Lee A, Cheung YSL, Joynt GM, Leung CCH, Wong WT, Gomersall CD. Are high nurse workload/staffing ratios associated with decreased survival in critically ill patients? A cohort study. Annals of Intensive Care 2017; 7:46.
 
  • Ho J, Zhang L, Liu X, Wong SH, Wang MHT, Lau BWM, Ngai SPC, Chan H, Choi G, Leung CCH, Wong WT, Tsang S, Gin T, Yu J, Chan MTV, Wu WKK. Pathological Role and Diagnostic Value of Endogenous Host Defense Peptides in Adult and Neonatal Sepsis: A Systematic Review. Shock 2017; 47:673-9.
 
  • Wong WT, Gomersall CD. Adaptive support ventilation of cardiac surgical patients: A component of a complex intervention. Journal of Critical Care 2017; 37:251.
 
  • Tam MK, Wong WT, Gomersall CD, et al. A randomized controlled trial of 2 protocols for weaning cardiac surgical patients receiving adaptive support ventilation. Journal of Critical Care 2016; 33:163-8.
 
  • Wong WT, Lai VK, Chee YE, Lee A. Fast-track cardiac care for adult cardiac surgical patients. The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2016; 9:Cd003587.
 
  • Wong WT, Choi G, Gomersall CD, Lipman J. To increase or decrease dosage of antimicrobials in septic patients during continuous renal replacement therapy: the eternal doubt. Current Opinion in Pharmacology 2015; 24:68-78.
 
  • Ho J, Yu J, Wong SH, Zhang Lin, Liu X, Wong WT, Leung CCH, Choi G, Wang MHT, Gin T, Chan MTV, Wu WKK. Autophagy in sepsis: Degradation into exhaustion? Autophagy 2016; 12:1073-82.
 
  • Ho J, Chan H, Wong SH, Wang MHT, Xiao Z, Liu X, Choi G, Leung CCH, Wong WT, Li Zheng, Gin T, Chan MTV, Wu WKK. The involvement of regulatory non-coding RNAs in sepsis: a systematic review. Critical Care 2016; 20:383.
 
  • Wong WT, Choi G, Gomersall CD, Lipman J. To increase or decrease dosage of antimicrobials in septic patients during continuous renal replacement therapy: the eternal doubt. Current Opinion in Pharmacology 2015; 24:68-78.
 
  • Joynt GM, WT Wong. Ten diseases you need to know if you want to be a critical care specialist in Hong Kong. Intensive Care Medicine 2014; 40:1144-6.
  • Wong WT, Ho E, Ling L. Pnuemonia. In: Oh’s Intensive Care Manual, Chapter 36. Edited by Handy JM, Venkatesh B, Martin D, Cohen J. [In press]
 
  • Wong (2020) End-of-Life Decision-Making in Acute Care Setting. In: Gu D., Dupre M. (eds) Encyclopedia of Gerontology and Population Aging. Springer, Cham.
 
  • Wong WT & Joynt GM. Chapter 11 End-of-life Quality management in intensive care : a practical guide. Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York: Cambridge University Press; 2016.

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