Paediatrics

The Department of Pediatrics of the Second Affiliated Hospital of Dalian Medical University is a comprehensive discipline integrating clinical care, teaching, and scientific research. It is a key specialty in Liaoning Province and Dalian City, a National Standardized Residency Training Base, a member institution of the National Alliance for Rare Pediatric Kidney Diseases, a member institution of the Peking University Hospital Pediatric Collaboration Network, a member institution of the Northeast China Pediatric Epilepsy Medical Alliance, the Liaoning Provincial Critical Neonatal Care Center, and a member hospital of the Liaoning Provincial Pediatric Hematology and Malignant Tumor Diagnosis and Treatment Collaboration Group. The department currently has 22 doctors, including 5 full professors, 5 associate professors, 5 attending physicians, and 7 resident physicians; more than 90% of the doctors hold a doctoral or master’s degree.

In addition to common childhood diseases such as pneumonia, especially severe pneumonia, and diarrhea accompanied by dehydration, the pediatric ward is principally characterized by the admission of children with various difficult and severe conditions:

1. Pediatric renal, rheumatic, and immune-system diseases, including renal diseases such as hematuria, proteinuria, nephritis, IgA nephropathy, refractory nephropathy, and hereditary nephropathy; and rheumatic and immune diseases such as systemic lupus erythematosus, juvenile rheumatoid arthritis, Kawasaki disease, allergic purpura, and purpura nephritis. The department performs pediatric renal biopsies, provides dialysis treatment, and offers targeted therapies such as molecular agents.

2. Pediatric hematologic and oncologic diseases, including all types of childhood leukemia, aplastic anemia, lymphoma, neuroblastoma and other types of solid tumors, various types of anemia, hemolysis, thrombocytopenia, infectious mononucleosis, and others. As the pediatric team of the Liaoning Provincial Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation Center, the department admits children with various diseases related to hematopoietic stem cell transplantation and provides autologous hematopoietic stem cell transplantation, lymphocyte reinfusion, and other treatments.

3. Pediatric endocrine diseases, including short stature, precocious puberty, pediatric obesity, pediatric diabetes, ketoacidosis, and thyroid diseases. The department was the first in the city to provide diagnosis and treatment for growth hormone deficiency and precocious puberty.

4. As a member institution of the Northeast China Pediatric Epilepsy Medical Alliance, the department admits children with all types of epilepsy and has extensive experience in treating refractory epilepsy, various encephalitides, and encephalopathies. It performs MRI epilepsy sequences and 24-hour video EEG examinations. It provides emergency rescue for critically ill children with respiratory failure, heart failure, arrhythmia, myocarditis, poisoning, status epilepticus, status asthmaticus, and other acute and critical conditions.

In addition to diagnosing and treating common infectious diseases such as pediatric pneumonia and enteritis, the outpatient department offers specialized clinics for pediatric short stature, development, and health care; pediatric renal diseases and rheumatic and immune diseases; pediatric endocrinology and obesity; pediatric hematology and oncology; pediatric neurology; and pediatric enuresis. Its neonatal clinic provides diagnosis and treatment for neonates and young infants within 6 months of age, nutritional guidance, follow-up for high-risk neonates, and other specialized disease services.

Pediatrics carries on an excellent teaching tradition and places great importance on education. It has led multiple provincial- and university-level education reform projects and has repeatedly achieved outstanding results in teaching competitions for instructors organized by the hospital and the university. It has trained more than 100 outstanding master’s graduates for pediatric programs nationwide. The department has served as chief editor or contributing editor for 5 Pediatrics textbooks planned by the Ministry of Health.

The department actively conducts scientific research, leading 4 National Natural Science Foundation projects, 5 provincial-level projects, and 4 municipal-level projects. It has received 1 second prize and 3 third prizes of the Provincial Science and Technology Progress Award, as well as 2 Municipal Science and Technology Progress Awards. It has published more than 100 papers, including 15 indexed in SCI.