Paediatrics

1. Basic information: The Department of Pediatrics is a key medical discipline supported by Suzhou Municipality, one of the distinctive specialty departments of Suzhou Jiulong Hospital; it integrates medical care, teaching, and scientific research and is a core clinical department that meets the standards of a tertiary Grade A general hospital. The department has a medical and nursing team with a high level of technical expertise, extensive clinical experience, and high ethical and professional standards; its medical services cover the diagnosis and treatment of diseases and health care for children of all ages, and it provides high-quality services consistent with modern medical models and concepts. The department offers regular outpatient and emergency services, specialist outpatient clinics for various diseases, and special-needs outpatient clinics with renowned physicians; its wards are fully organized by category. 2. Bed capacity: There are 20 approved beds and 35 beds actually open for use. The beds are divided among general pediatrics, isolation, and VIP wards. 3. Personnel team: There are currently 30 medical and nursing staff members, including 16 doctors, 11 with senior professional titles, and 10 with master's degrees or higher. All nursing staff have undergone many years of rigorous professional training and clinical nursing practice, possess excellent specialized nursing skills, and provide a full range of high-quality pediatric nursing services. 4. Equipment configuration: The department has excellent medical equipment, including instruments essential to pediatric specialty practice (multiparameter monitors, exhaled nitric oxide measurement devices, micro-volume blood glucose meters, transcutaneous bilirubin meters, microcomputer-controlled infusion pumps, blue-light therapy boxes, and others), as well as equipment for providing distinctive medical services (vision and hearing screening, bone mineral density and bone age measurement), and intelligent systems for assessing children's growth and development and nutritional status, among others. 5. Clinical features: The department routinely diagnoses and treats common and frequently occurring diseases affecting all body systems in children and provides emergency care for critical and severe conditions, such as convulsions, severe pneumonia, status asthmaticus, shock, heart failure, severe infections, and others. In recent years, it has established various distinctive pediatric clinical specialties, including pediatric respiratory medicine, allergic diseases, and endocrine diseases (short stature, precocious puberty, obesity, and others). It provides child health visits, physical examinations, health-care consultations, medical examinations for children in local childcare institutions, and school-entry medical examinations; it routinely provides distinctive medical services such as pediatric bone age and intelligent growth and development assessments, pediatric nutritional assessments, growth- and development-related stimulation tests, allergen testing and allergen immunotherapy, exhaled nitric oxide measurement, and pulmonary function testing. 6. Scientific research and teaching: Over the past 3 years, the department has undertaken 3 research projects, published more than 30 papers, and obtained authorization for more than 10 patents.