South Campus—Gynecology Ward（哈南分院）

Gynecology Ward

2022.11

The Department of Gynecology of the Hanan Branch Hospital draws on the teaching and research strengths of the Department of Gynecology of the Second Affiliated Hospital of Heilongjiang University of Chinese Medicine. It is a national key specialty, a key construction project of the National Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine, a key discipline and key specialty at the Heilongjiang provincial level, and the Innovation Team for Acupuncture and Gynecology of Heilongjiang University of Chinese Medicine. The department undertakes the clinical diagnosis, treatment, preventive healthcare, and family-planning services of the gynecology outpatient clinic and ward at the Hanan Branch Hospital. As a teaching hospital, the department undertakes specialist and undergraduate teaching as well as clinical internship instruction, and serves as a rotation department for standardized training of resident physicians and training of general practitioners. The department is equipped with advanced diagnostic and therapeutic devices, including colposcopes and hysteroscopes. The outpatient clinic has specialty consultation rooms for infertility, chronic pelvic pain, and vulvar leukoplakia, and the ward has 40 open beds. There are currently 11 medical and nursing staff members: 5 physicians and 6 nursing staff. Among them are 2 doctors with doctoral degrees, 3 with master's degrees, 1 deputy chief physician, 2 attending physicians, and 2 resident physicians.

The Department of Gynecology carries forward the traditional essence of gynecology in traditional Chinese medicine, perfectly integrating traditional Chinese medicine and modern medical diagnostic techniques. Based on the physiological and pathological characteristics of women, it is guided by a holistic concept, takes syndrome differentiation and treatment as its core, and combines disease diagnosis with syndrome differentiation in treating common and difficult gynecological diseases. The department is also committed to the diagnosis, treatment, and research of conditions for which traditional Chinese medicine has therapeutic advantages, with chronic pelvic pain, endometriosis, menopausal syndrome, and vulvar leukoplakia designated as the department's conditions of therapeutic advantage and research directions.

Distinctive features of traditional Chinese medicine diagnosis and treatment in the department:

On the basis of traditional oral Chinese herbal medicine prescribed according to syndrome differentiation, the department actively explores traditional Chinese medicine therapies that are simple, convenient, economical, and effective. It combines acupuncture and medication and develops multiple routes of administration and comprehensive treatment methods, fully highlighting the characteristics and advantages of traditional Chinese medicine in the diagnosis and treatment of diseases, including:

1. Chinese herbal retention enemas, targeted transdermal delivery of Chinese herbal medicine, and Chinese herbal medicine pack therapy for chronic pelvic pain, pelvic masses, pelvic inflammatory disease, infertility caused by salpingitis, endometriosis, adenomyosis, scanty menstruation, and other diseases;

2. Chinese herbal fumigation and sitz baths for female vulvitis, vaginitis, vulvar leukoplakia, and other diseases;

3. Vulvar acupoint block therapy combined with surrounding needling of the vulva for the treatment of female vulvar leukoplakia;

4. Intramuscular thread embedding for polycystic ovary syndrome, irregular menstruation, obesity, dysmenorrhea, and other conditions;

5. Scalp acupuncture cluster needling and auricular acupressure with seeds for menopausal syndrome, menstrual headaches, sleep disorders, and other conditions;

6. Application of Chinese herbal medicine to acupoints, moxibustion, and indirect moxibustion for dysmenorrhea, endometriosis, adenomyosis, chronic pelvic pain, female cold syndrome, and other conditions;

7. Chinese herbal fumigation for dysmenorrhea, postpartum body pain, menopausal syndrome, neck, shoulder, lower-back, and leg pain, and other conditions.

Scope of Diagnosis and Treatment

Menstrual disorders (heavy menstrual bleeding, prolonged menstrual periods, scanty menstruation, intermenstrual bleeding, amenorrhea, dysmenorrhea, uterine bleeding, endometriosis, premature ovarian failure, menopausal syndrome, polycystic ovary syndrome, etc.); disorders of vaginal discharge (vulvitis, vaginitis, cervicitis, etc.); pregnancy-related disorders (threatened miscarriage, recurrent miscarriage, ectopic pregnancy, etc.); postpartum disorders (postpartum body pain, persistent lochia, etc.); miscellaneous gynecological disorders (chronic pelvic pain, pelvic inflammatory disease, vulvar leukoplakia, infertility, pretreatment for assisted reproduction, etc.); women's health maintenance and care; women's health consultation.