Neurology

The Department of Neurology of Hangzhou First People's Hospital has been a key specialty of the Hangzhou Municipal Health Bureau since 2001 and has developed rapidly in recent years. It enjoys a high reputation within the province, and its academic level ranks among the advanced in the province. It is particularly at the provincial forefront in the diagnosis and treatment of cerebrovascular disease, which is the leading cause of death and the leading cause of disability in China, and is a backbone department in the Hangzhou area. The department has its own distinctive expertise in the diagnosis and treatment of common and frequently occurring neurological diseases, such as acute cerebrovascular disease, epilepsy, and Parkinson's disease, and also maintains a very high standard in the diagnosis and treatment of difficult and critically ill patients in neurology and related departments. The Department of Neurology currently has 91 hospital beds and 51 medical and nursing staff, including 6 doctors with doctoral degrees and 12 with master's degrees, 6 with senior professional titles and 6 with associate senior professional titles. A stroke unit and a specialized intensive care unit have been established. The intensive care unit has a total of 9 monitoring beds, with nurses providing 24-hour monitoring and physicians specifically responsible for the patients; an advanced domestic neurological monitoring system has been introduced. It has admitted a large number of critically ill patients from this department and critically ill patients from related departments. The department has appointed Professor Liu Xinfeng, a nationally renowned neurologist and interventional cerebrovascular disease expert, doctoral supervisor, and Director of the Department of Neurology of Nanjing University Nanjing General Hospital of the People's Liberation Army, as a Qianjiang Distinguished Expert of Hangzhou.