Orthopaedics

The Orthopedics Department at Hangzhou Xixi Hospital is among the hospital’s first key disciplines, a member of the Yangtze River Delta spinal surgery alliance and Zhejiang rehabilitation specialty alliance, a co-building unit of the Zhejiang diabetic foot alliance, and a designated insured-care department for international students. Its core physicians come from well-known orthopedic centers within and outside the province. It reports 50 beds, nearly 30,000 outpatient visits, an average of 1,500 inpatient admissions and over 1,000 operations annually, with difficult grade III and IV operations accounting for more than 25% and activity increasing year by year.

The department has three chief and six associate chief physicians. All physicians at attending level or above have undertaken further training at well-known Chinese orthopedic centers. Five clinical teams cover trauma, spine, joints, hand and foot, and rehabilitation.

Hospital equipment includes MRI, multi-row spiral CT, dual-energy bone densitometry, an interventional DSA center and digital radiography. The department has two class-100 laminar-flow operating rooms, a multipurpose surgical traction table, Siemens intraoperative C-arm X-ray, arthroscope, foraminal endoscope, operating microscope, multipurpose orthopedic beds, fracture treatment devices, knee and elbow continuous passive motion machines, cervical and lumbar traction beds and a Chinese herbal fumigation bed.

The hospital reports close cooperation with Chinese and overseas orthopedic centers and research institutions and use of 3D printing and digital simulation for complex surgery. It describes minimally invasive spine and arthroscopic surgery as leading in the city and limb-salvage surgery for complex extremity trauma as advanced in the province. Its staff state a commitment to compassionate, skilled care and continued innovation for orthopedic patients.