General Surgery (Gastrointestinal, Hepatobiliary, Thyroid and Breast, Anorectal Surgery)

1.Basic information: General Surgery (gastrointestinal, hepatobiliary, thyroid and breast, and anorectal surgery) was established in September 2017. Formed as an expert team led by Professor Qian Haixin, a general surgery expert, it is a new digestive disease diagnosis and treatment center integrating digestive endoscopic examination and treatment with digestive surgery. At present, it routinely provides diagnosis, treatment, and surgery for general surgery and gastroenterology diseases, including hepatobiliary, pancreatic and splenic, gastrointestinal, and thyroid and breast diseases. 2.Bed capacity: It has 35 beds, all in two-person rooms and single rooms, with an average monthly surgical volume of 130 procedures, of which 90 are level-three and level-four procedures per year, with more than 3000 annual outpatient treatment visits and 1800 annual discharges. 3.Staff team: There are currently 14 doctors, including 7 chief physicians and 3 professors. The nursing team has 15 members. The academic leader, Professor Qian Haixin, is currently president of Suzhou Kowloon Hospital. He is a chief physician and professor of general surgery and a doctoral supervisor. From December 1983 to January 1985, he undertook advanced training at Nagoya University of Health Sciences in Japan. In 1992, he was awarded the Government Special Allowance by the State Council; in 1994, he was recognized as a ministerial-level young and middle-aged expert with outstanding contributions; in 1996, he was selected as a training candidate for Jiangsu Province's "Qinglan Project". He formerly served as vice-chairman of the Jiangsu Surgical Society and president of the Suzhou Medical Association. He formerly served as vice-chairman of the Suzhou Municipal Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, vice-chairman of the Standing Committee of the Suzhou Municipal People's Congress, chairman of the Suzhou Municipal Committee of Jiusan Society, and vice-chairman of the Jiangsu Provincial Committee. He has published more than 100 papers; he has supervised and trained hundreds of master's and doctoral students. Diseases treated: He has long worked in clinical general surgery and was among the earliest in China to carry out interventional tumor treatment, digestive endoscopic treatment, and liver transplantation. He is highly skilled in all types of general surgery, particularly in the diagnosis and surgical treatment of hepatobiliary, pancreatic, and splenic diseases. The department has specially invited Professor Qin Lei, a hepatobiliary surgery expert from the First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University; Professor Zhou Xiaojun, a gastrointestinal surgery expert; Professors Tian Liping and Liu Jianxia, thyroid and breast surgery experts; Director Liu Qiang, a gastroenterology expert; and other experts, who provide scheduled outpatient consultations and surgeries every week. 4.Equipment: It is equipped with specialized surgical and imaging equipment, including: a Siemens zeego integrated hybrid operating room, an Olympus duodenoscope, gastroscopes and colonoscopes, and an endoscopic ultrasound system, SIEMENS 1.5T and 3.0T magnetic resonance imaging, 64-row and 640-slice spiral CT, 3D-DSA, PET-CT, and others. 5.Clinical features: Digestive endoscopy currently routinely includes gastroscopy and colonoscopy examinations, ERCP, EMR, ESD, endoscopic puncture, endoscopic mucosal incision for achalasia of the cardia, duodenal endoscopic ultrasonography, and others. It was the first in Suzhou to perform endoscopic double-mushroom-head drainage for pancreatic pseudocysts. Digestive surgery routinely performs laparoscopic cholecystectomy and open and laparoscopic tension-free repair of various hernias, as well as liver tumor resection, radical resection for gallbladder cancer, pancreaticoduodenectomy, and open and laparoscopic radical resection of gastric and colonic tumors; it also performs surgeries for routine general surgery diseases such as thyroid and breast tumors. The department also performs multidisciplinary consultations (MDT) for liver tumors and plans to gradually carry out MDTs for gastric and intestinal malignant tumors and pancreatic tumors, with the aim of achieving personalized treatment for patients.