Thoracic Surgery

1. Basic information: The Department of Thoracic Surgery of Suzhou Kowloon Hospital is established in accordance with the standards for a national Grade III Class A general hospital. 2. Bed capacity: The ward is located on the 9th floor, Area A, of Phase I of the Inpatient Building and has 23 beds. 3. Personnel team: The department has 21 medical and nursing staff, including 6 specially appointed experts from external hospitals in Shanghai and Suzhou. 4. Equipment configuration: It has 2 high-standard laminar-flow operating rooms, equipped with 2 STORZ dual-screen thoracoscopic systems, 1 VIO300®300S high-frequency electrosurgical unit, 3 main units (GEN11 and HARH36) of an integrated ultrasonic high-frequency surgical system, 1 extracorporeal circulation machine, and a large number of other high-end, cutting-edge devices. 5. Clinical specialties: The diseases diagnosed and treated cover the clinical scope of thoracic surgery, including lung cancer, all types of pulmonary nodules, esophageal cancer, cancer of the gastric cardia, mediastinal tumors, palmar hyperhidrosis, metastatic lung tumors, hemopneumothorax, pulmonary bullae, lung abscess, bronchiectasis, benign and malignant pleural effusions, benign esophageal tumors, achalasia of the cardia, hiatal hernia, diaphragmatic hernia, pectus excavatum, multiple rib fractures, all types of thoracic trauma, and so on. The department's specialty and development focus is single-port thoracoscopic minimally invasive surgery. It routinely performs single-port thoracoscopic lobectomy/segmentectomy, single-port thoracoscopic mediastinal tumor resection, and totally endoscopic radical esophagectomy for esophageal cancer. It routinely uses robotic surgical-assistance system technology to treat lung cancer, esophageal cancer, and mediastinal tumors. It routinely performs CT-guided puncture localization of pulmonary nodules, 3D reconstruction-based localization of pulmonary nodules, CT-guided radiofrequency/microwave ablation of pulmonary nodules, enhanced recovery after surgery technology (ERAS), cosmetic suturing of surgical incisions, and other procedures. 6. Research and teaching: Mao Yiming, Deputy Administrative Director of the Department of Thoracic Surgery (in charge of departmental operations), Doctor of Medicine, master's supervisor, Associate Chief Physician, Deputy Director of the Department of Science and Education, Gusu Young Top Health Talent, member of the Suzhou Industrial Park Association for Science and Technology, specially appointed research fellow at the Institute of Operation and Management of Non-Public Hospitals • Hospital Management Research Center of Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Young Talent of China's Non-Public Medical Institutions, member of the Medical Education Committee for Lung Cancer of the China Medical Education Association, member of the Esophageal Disease Group of the Thoracic Surgery Branch of the Suzhou Medical Association, Executive Council Member of the Surgery Branch of the China Association of Minority Medicine, member of the Professional Committee on Respiratory Interventional Oncology of the Suzhou Anti-Cancer Association, and member of the Professional Committee of Aesthetic Medicine of the Chinese Research Hospital Association. Editorial board member and reviewer for several medical journals. Has led multiple municipal-level research projects and published more than 30 papers in China and abroad.