Neonatology

The Department of Neonatology of the Second Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University integrates medical care, teaching, and scientific research. It is the Heilongjiang Province Critical Neonatal Care Center and one of the neonatal disease diagnosis and treatment centers with the most advanced equipment and the strongest technical capabilities. It undertakes the rescue and treatment of emergency and critically ill newborns in the region, real-time monitoring during the deliveries of pregnant women at our hospital, and medical care for ordinary newborns. The department has 6 doctors, including 1 chief physician, 2 deputy chief physicians, and 3 attending physicians; 2 hold doctoral degrees and 4 hold master's degrees; and a nursing team of 18. The nursing team has superb nursing skills and is proficient in techniques such as neonatal arterial and venous catheterization. Our department has advanced instruments and equipment and a highly skilled, professionally competent medical and nursing team, which can meet the comprehensive diagnosis, treatment, and nursing needs of various neonatal diseases. It has accumulated extensive clinical experience in the diagnosis and treatment of emergency and critically ill diseases and difficult cases, including neonatal asphyxia, respiratory distress syndrome, persistent pulmonary hypertension, respiratory and circulatory failure, and others. Systematic management has significantly improved the survival rate and quality of life of premature infants. At present, the youngest gestational age of an extremely preterm, extremely low birth weight infant successfully treated by our department who survived in good health is 26 weeks, with a weight of only 690g. We uphold the spirit of “Straight wood follows the ink line; broad learning carries medicine” to safeguard the newborns of our province.