Burns and Plastic Surgery Department

1. Basic information: The Department of Burns and Plastic Surgery is a specialized department for burns and plastic surgery established by Suzhou Kowloon Hospital. The conditions treated involve burn surgery: injuries to human tissues or organs caused by heat, such as boiling liquids (water, oil, and soup), incandescent metals (liquid or solid), flames, steam, and high-temperature gases; tissue damage caused by electrical energy, chemicals, radiation, and other factors; and what is clinically customarily called “scalds”—tissue damage caused by hot liquids (boiling soup, boiling water, and boiling oil), steam, molten steel, and so on. 2. Bed capacity: 3 beds are currently available. 3. Personnel team: The department currently has 4 specialists, including 2 attending physicians and 2 resident physicians; 3 hold master's degrees. 4. Equipment: It is currently equipped with an air-fluidized bed, turning bed, immersion bathtub, infrared therapy instrument, water jet, electric dermatome, liposuction machine, and other equipment. 5. Clinical specialties: 1. Plastic and cosmetic suturing of facial skin and soft-tissue contusions and lacerations. 2. Scars (including surgical scars) and keloids, benign tumors of the body surface (including nevi, lipomas, sebaceous cysts, etc.) and malignant tumors of the body-surface soft tissues (such as basal cell carcinoma and squamous cell carcinoma, etc.), radiation-induced skin injuries, obesity, bromhidrosis, and so on. 3. Oculoplastic surgery, ear piercing, botulinum toxin injection treatment, liposuction, hymen repair, labioplasty for labia minora hypertrophy, and so on. 4. Treatment of various chronic, difficult-to-heal wounds, and so on. 6. Scientific research and teaching: Several papers have been published. The department has maintained close, year-round collaboration with the team of Professor Shen Guoliang from the Department of Burns and Plastic Surgery of the First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University.