Orthopaedics

(I) Department Overview Guangzhou Medical University Affiliated Women and Children’s Medical Center Department of Pediatric Orthopedics was established in 1988. After more than 30 years of arduous efforts by several generations, our department has achieved remarkable accomplishments and undergone rapid development. At present, our department has a total of 54 beds across three hospitals and three campuses, performs an average of more than 4,000 operations annually, and receives 45,000 outpatient visits annually. The scope of diagnosis and treatment in our department covers all pediatric orthopedic diseases. We have developed a distinctive specialty focusing on the correction of congenital and acquired deformities in children (scoliosis, hip dislocation, clubfoot, femoral head necrosis (Perthes disease), cubitus varus and valgus, genu varum and valgum, lower-limb length discrepancy, polydactyly and syndactyly, and other limb deformities), with trauma and fractures, bone disease syndromes, tumors, infections, and others as its foundation. At present, our department has become the top-ranked pediatric orthopedic specialty in South China in terms of overall strength and a leading pediatric orthopedic specialty nationwide. (II) Technical Team Expert Team: Our department currently has 26 full-time orthopedic physicians, including 3 chief physicians, 3 deputy chief physicians, 6 attending physicians, and 1 gait analyst. Among them are 12 doctoral students, 8 master’s students, and 1 research-oriented postdoctoral fellow. Advanced Equipment: Our department established the first international-standard pediatric professional gait analysis laboratory in China. To date, more than 6,000 cases of complex lower-limb motion analysis have been conducted, providing an important clinical basis for guiding surgery for various lower-limb movement disorders. Its research on pediatric scoliosis won the EPOS Best Paper Award. Scientific Research: Our department has received 5 grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China, 1 project from the Guangdong Provincial Health and Family Planning Commission, 2 Guangdong Provincial Enterprise Joint Fund projects, and 3 Guangzhou municipal scientific research projects; published more than 50 SCI papers on basic and clinical pediatric orthopedics and more than 20 papers in Chinese core journals. We pioneered the treatment of developmental hip dislocation in children of different age groups using closed reduction and dynamic frog-leg plaster fixation, proposed the Wu classification of thumb polydactyly, and more, receiving a strong response both domestically and internationally. (III) Domestic and International Exchanges and Cooperation Our department took the lead in establishing the China Pediatric Orthopedics Multicenter Research Collaboration Group and has carried out multiple multicenter studies. Our department maintains long-term cooperation with Professor Federico Canavese of the University Hospital of Clermont-Ferrand, France, and Professor Antonio Andeacchio, the current president of the European Paediatric Orthopaedic Society (EPOS), conducting clinical and research cooperation in pediatric orthopedics. The Guangzhou-EPOS Pediatric Orthopedics Summit is held regularly. In 2017-2018, Professor Federico Canavese worked clinically in our department for more than 1 year, promoting the progress and development of pediatric orthopedics in both countries. Our department maintains good cooperation with the DuPont Children’s Hospital in the United States and others, and regularly sends resident physicians there for further training. (IV) Department Features (1) Deformity correction techniques (2) Minimally invasive fracture techniques (3) Techniques for the diagnosis and treatment of bone disease syndromes (4) Tumor diagnosis and treatment techniques (V) Outpatient and Emergency Visits and Surgical Appointment Procedures The Zhujiang New Town Campus (No. 9 Jinsui Road, Tianhe District), Children’s Campus (No. 318 Renmin Middle Road, Yuexiu District), and Zengcheng Campus (No. 293 Zengcheng Avenue) all have wards of our department. Our department’s doctors are on duty 24 hours a day, and our department has an outpatient clinic or night clinic every day. If a child with trauma, fractures, or another emergency condition needs urgent care, they may go at any time to the emergency surgery department at any campus and contact the doctor on duty in our department for consultation and management. If our department has an outpatient clinic or overtime night clinic during that period, they may also register for an appointment and seek care through the official account. Using a mobile phone, search for and follow Guangzhou Women and Children’s Medical Center on WeChat or Alipay, and link or create a health card number (children without an identity card may use a parent’s identity card number and enter the child’s information) to make appointment registrations, pay outpatient and inpatient fees, schedule examinations, and perform other operations. At present, appointment registration for outpatient and overtime night clinics opens at 20：00 two weeks in advance. For example, at 20：00 on Monday evening, December 2, 2024, appointments can be made for our department’s outpatient and overtime night clinic slots on Monday, December 16, 2024. If anything is unclear, please call 81886332. If there are no appointment slots available on WeChat, you may contact our department’s doctors through online platforms such as Douyin, Xiaohongshu, and Internet Hospital; after confirmation, an additional appointment slot may be obtained on site. After outpatient evaluation, if surgery is required, our department’s doctor will issue a hospital admission certificate and, according to the child’s condition, arrange the relevant procedures and surgical appointment for day surgery or inpatient surgery. Day surgery involves admission, surgery, and discharge on the same day, with the preoperative examinations completed in the outpatient clinic in advance. For inpatient surgery, the preoperative examinations are completed after admission.