Neurological Medicine Centre

The Neuromedicine Center is one of the hospital’s key departments. By recruiting an outstanding team of experts and introducing advanced surgical equipment, integrating the hospital’s distinctive oncology treatments, and relying on a multidisciplinary team (MDT) collaboration mechanism, it provides patients with nervous system tumors, diseases, and trauma with integrated professional services covering emergency care, diagnosis, treatment (surgery), rehabilitation, and health guidance. The department currently has 2 professors/chief physicians, 2 associate chief physicians, and 4 attending physicians. The department’s director, Tong Jianguo, is a retired expert from Southwest Hospital of the Army Medical University. After graduation, he worked continuously at Chongqing Southwest Hospital, oncology hospitals, and other tertiary Grade A hospitals, and has more than 30 years of clinical experience in neurosurgical diagnosis and treatment. The other members of the department all come from renowned hospitals such as Daping Hospital of the Army Medical University and Beijing Sanbo Brain Hospital, and have extensive experience in the diagnosis and treatment of nervous system diseases. The department has 100 open beds and 7 NICU beds; it is equipped with large medical devices including the Siemens Artis one DSA whole-brain angiography system, PET/CT, 256-slice and 64-slice spiral CT scanners, 3.0T MRI, a gyroscopic rotational cobalt-60 precise radiotherapy system, and an Elekta linear accelerator; it also has specialized equipment including the German ZEISS S88 autofocus microscope, a neurosurgical robot, a STORZ high-definition neuroendoscope, a Doro surgical head frame and automatic brain retractor system, the U.S. Medtronic craniotomy power system, the Aesculap N160 dedicated bipolar coagulator for neurosurgery, and neurosurgical microsurgical instruments. The department applies advanced neurosurgical microscopy, endoscopy, vascular imaging, neuroelectrophysiological modulation, and biomedical engineering technologies to provide minimally invasive, precise, and individualized comprehensive treatment for difficult and critically ill cases involving the nervous system. It is a large comprehensive neuromedicine department in the western urban area of Chongqing integrating the prevention, diagnosis, surgery, treatment (including radiotherapy and chemotherapy), and functional rehabilitation of diseases of the brain, spinal cord, peripheral nerves, and spine, and includes neurology and neurosurgery, neurocritical care (NICU), and an electrophysiology room.