Otolaryngology

The Department of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery at Hangzhou First People's Hospital, affiliated with Westlake University School of Medicine, has been a Hangzhou category I key medical discipline since 2017 and a municipal key clinical specialty since 2023. It is a national ENT resident training base, chair unit of the Hangzhou Medical Association ENT branch, Hangzhou children's hearing diagnosis center since 2016, Zhejiang cochlear implantation base since 2017, and a core and network member of the National Clinical Research Center for Otolaryngologic Diseases since 2021. It combines clinical care, research, teaching and health services and is a teaching base for Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Nanjing Medical University, Hangzhou Normal University, Zhejiang Chinese Medical University and Wenzhou Medical College. Centers cover clinical audiology, endoscopic diagnosis and treatment, snoring, allergic rhinitis, head and neck surgery and cochlear implantation. Specialist clinics include sinonasal skull-base tumors, snoring, hearing loss and tinnitus. The hospital reports early adoption in China of a fully endoscopic outpatient examination system with a dedicated endoscope disinfection room. Equipment includes hearing and vestibular testing, surgical navigation, head MRI, CT, DSA, neural electrical monitoring, a Zeiss surgical microscope and STORZ HD and XION ultra-HD surgical systems. Across Hubin and Chengbei campuses the department has 28 physicians, including six doctorates and 16 master's degree holders; six dedicated hearing and sleep-breathing testing staff; nine chief and six associate chief physicians; and six master's supervisors. Senior physicians have defined subspecialty interests. Established in 1950, the department reports early provincial adoption of stapes prosthesis surgery, laryngeal cancer surgery preserving laryngeal function and combined surgery for sinonasal skull-base tumors. Its specialties include ear microsurgery—tympanic and mastoid procedures, ossicular prostheses, cochlear implants and endoscopic ear surgery—and dizziness/hearing/tinnitus clinics; endoscopic surgery for complex sinusitis and tumors of the nasal cavity, skull base and related eye region, and integrated allergic rhinitis care; laryngeal microsurgery and minimally invasive surgery for early laryngeal cancer; laryngeal-function-preserving surgery for laryngeal and hypopharyngeal cancer; and comprehensive care for adult and pediatric obstructive sleep apnea–hypopnea syndrome. It reports over 200,000 outpatient visits and about 3,600 operations annually. Staff lead or participate in national, provincial and municipal studies, offer continuing education at those levels, and train seven to eight master's students and around ten residents per year.