Anaesthesiology

The Department of Anesthesiology of the Second Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University was established in 1957 and is a clinical department integrating medical care, scientific research, and teaching. The anesthesiology program at the Second Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University is a national-level specialty with distinctive features and a key specialty in Heilongjiang Province, and the discipline of anesthesiology is a key discipline in Heilongjiang Province. In 1985, it obtained the authority to confer master’s degrees in anesthesiology; in 1987, it was approved to establish an undergraduate anesthesiology program; in 1988, it enrolled the first cohort of undergraduate anesthesiology students from across the country; in 1990, it obtained the authority to confer doctoral degrees in anesthesiology; and in 1995, it was approved as a postdoctoral mobile station in Clinical Medicine (Anesthesiology). Since 1995, it has been a key discipline developed under Heilongjiang Province’s “211 Project”; in 2000, it was reapproved by the Provincial Department of Education as a provincial key discipline; in 2001, its affiliated laboratory was approved as a key laboratory of institutions of higher education in Heilongjiang Province; in 2007, the laboratory was designated by the Heilongjiang Provincial Department of Science and Technology as a provincial key laboratory; in 2010, the discipline was approved by the Ministry of Health as one of the first disciplines designated for development as a National Key Clinical Specialty; in 2013, it was included by the Heilongjiang Provincial Government and the Department of Human Resources and Social Security in the “Provincial Leading Talent Echelon” and designated by the Second Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University as a “First-Class Discipline”; and in 2020, the anesthesiology program was rated a national first-class specialty.

The Department of Anesthesiology at the Second Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University comprises Clinical Anesthesia, Pain Diagnosis and Treatment, the post-anesthesia recovery room, and the Heilongjiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Anesthesiology. It is currently a standardized residency training base of the National Health and Family Planning Commission, the Commission’s “China Primary Trauma Care Training Base,” and the Commission’s Endoscopic Anesthesia Training Base; a Comfort-Oriented Hospital (Anesthesia) of the Commission and the Chinese Medical Association; and, under the Chinese Medical Association’s Anesthesiology Branch, such entities as the “Training Base for Directors of Anesthesiology Departments in Primary-Level Hospitals,” the “TCI Target-Controlled Infusion Technology Center,” the “Geriatric Anesthesia Base,” the “Orthopedic Anesthesia Training Base,” the “Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine Anesthesia Training Base,” and the “Difficult Airway Management Training Base,” among others. The Department of Anesthesiology at the Second Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University currently has 3 operating centers, with a total of 60 operating rooms, and also undertakes anesthesia services for painless gastrointestinal endoscopic diagnosis and treatment, painless bronchoscopic diagnosis and treatment, interventional diagnosis and treatment, labor analgesia, and other procedures, with an average annual surgical volume of more than 60,000 cases. In addition, an anesthesia clinic has been specially established to facilitate pre-anesthesia consultation and assessment for patients, thereby effectively ensuring preoperative assessment and condition optimization for day-surgery patients and patients with coexisting underlying diseases.

The Department of Anesthesiology currently has 97 permanent employees, including 71 physicians, 20 nurses, 2 members of the teaching and research section, 3 laboratory staff members, and 1 engineer. The teaching and research section currently has 69 faculty members in total, including 15 professors, 28 associate professors, and 26 lecturers. The section currently has 6 doctoral supervisors and 21 master’s supervisors. The course “Critical Care Medicine” was rated a national-level high-quality course and is also a national resource-sharing course; the course “Clinical Anesthesiology” was rated a provincial-level high-quality course; and the course “Pain Diagnosis and Treatment” was rated a university-level high-quality course.

To date, the Department of Anesthesiology at the Second Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University has published nearly 700 papers. More than 170 are SCI papers; it has undertaken 20 projects funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China, 10 other national-level projects, and 114 provincial- and ministerial-level projects; achieved 33 results; compiled and published 85 textbooks and monographs; and secured 7 utility model patents. All colleagues in the Department of Anesthesiology will remain true to their original mission, move forward with determination, continue to contribute to the development of medical and health services, and continue to serve as guardians of the lives of our many patients.