Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery

The Department of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery at the Fourth Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University has 59 medical and nursing staff. Its designated roles include the Heilongjiang newborn hearing impairment diagnosis center, membership in the China Hearing Health Alliance and the national ENT clinical research network, a standardized deafness gene testing base for birth-defect prevention, and participation in a multicenter study on cochlear implant complications and residual hearing preservation. In 2021 it signed a partnership with Harbin Children's Hospital's hearing impairment center to support surgery and rehabilitation for children. The hospital reports good results with a multifunctional otolith diagnosis and treatment system introduced early in the province. The department covers otology, rhinology, laryngology, head and neck surgery and otologic medicine. It reports early provincial adoption of plasma surgery, laser excision of laryngeal lesions under suspension laryngoscopy and cochlear implantation. It performs surgery for otitis media, endoscopic nasal surgery, laryngeal and hypopharyngeal tumors, thyroid and parotid surgery and flap transplantation. The hospital describes these services as advanced in the province. Over more than ten years it has performed over 6,000 ear operations and 700 cochlear implants and can implant all domestic and international cochlear implant brands. Research includes two provincial science and technology projects, one provincial natural science grant, one provincial health project, one provincial youth science grant and one provincial postdoctoral grant; it received a second prize for new technology and published 11 SCI papers. It also received three provincial education projects, including one key education science project. The department has two master's supervisors and is a national standardized residency training base.