Orthopedic Surgery Department 1

The Department of Orthopedics of Heilongjiang Provincial Hospital is a departmental-level key discipline, and Orthopedics Department I is a hospital-level key discipline; the department is the Smart Orthopedics Training Base of the National Clinical Medical Research Center for Orthopedics and Sports Rehabilitation, a national collaborative base for standardized residency training, a National Medical Device Clinical Trial Institution (GCP Orthopedics specialty), a council member institution of the Sports Medicine Specialty Medical Consortium of Peking University Third Hospital, an institution represented by a deputy chairperson of the Orthopedics Branch of the Heilongjiang Medical Association, and an institution represented by a deputy chairperson of the Orthopedic Physicians Branch of the Heilongjiang Physicians Association. In recent years, with the development of the hospital, the department has continuously introduced new technologies and new equipment and applied them clinically, enabling the department to develop rapidly; the level of diagnosis and treatment of difficult and severe orthopedic conditions has continuously improved, and, particularly in the fields of minimally invasive spinal and joint surgery, trauma surgery, and sports medicine, it is at a leading level within the province. It has made considerable progress in minimally invasive replacement of the hip, knee, shoulder, and elbow joints; endoscopic spinal surgery for the treatment of degenerative spinal diseases; and repair and reconstruction of severe pelvic and extremity trauma.

Medical and nursing staff composition:

Orthopedics Department I currently has 11 doctors, including 3 chief physicians, 1 associate chief physician, and 7 attending physicians; 1 has a doctoral degree, 9 have master’s degrees, and 1 has a bachelor’s degree. It additionally has 12 nursing staff.

Clinical specialties:

At present, our department is proficient in performing the following procedures:

1. Anterior cervical procedures (ACDF, ACCF, ACAF) and posterior single-door expansive cervical laminoplasty with spinous-process suspension for treating cervical spondylosis and cervical ossification of the posterior longitudinal ligament (OPLL), as well as cervical pedicle-screw, lateral-mass-screw, and internal fixation techniques for the odontoid process of the axis, and occipitocervical fixation techniques for treating cervical fracture-dislocations;

2. The minimally invasive procedures OLIF, P/TLIF, and Endo--P/TLIF, and endoscopic UBE (biportal) and PELD (uniportal) for treating lumbar disc herniation, lumbar spinal canal stenosis, and lumbar spondylolisthesis;

3. Small-incision arthroplasty of the hip (DAA-THA), knee (TKA, UKA), shoulder (humeral head, reverse shoulder), and elbow joints;

4. Minimally invasive core decompression and pedicled vascularized bone-flap transplantation for early- and mid-stage avascular necrosis of the femoral head;

5. Internal and external fixation surgery for complex pelvic and extremity traumatic fractures;

6. Minimally invasive bone-cement vertebroplasty (PKP and PVP) for osteoporotic vertebral compression fractures in older adults, and percutaneous vertebral pedicle-screw placement for vertebral compression fractures in young adults;

7. Spinal deformity correction surgery and debridement of vertebral tuberculosis lesions;

8. Complex joint replacement using 3D-printed prostheses.

9. Systematic treatment of developmental dysplasia of the hip (DDH). 10. The use of spinal nerve-root blocks, intradiscal interventional techniques (collagenase, laser), and spinal endoscopy (foraminal endoscopy PELD, arthroscopy UBE) for the accurate diagnosis and minimally invasive treatment of lumbar disc herniation and degenerative lumbar spinal canal stenosis.

Department experts: (senior professional titles, associate senior professional titles)

Senior professional titles: 崔巍, Chief Physician; 李加龙, Chief Physician; 康雪峰, Chief Physician

Associate senior professional title: 张钊, Associate Chief Physician.