Thoracic Surgery

The Department of Thoracic Surgery at Peking University Shenzhen Hospital is a key discipline within the hospital. It currently has 72 open beds, a medical team of 19 and a nursing team of 31, including seven chief physicians, four deputy chief physicians, eight attending physicians and two resident physicians; among them are nine doctors, six master’s degree holders and four bachelor’s degree holders. There are two doctoral supervisors and three master’s supervisors. The department has high-end thoracic surgery equipment such as the da Vinci robot and 3D thoracoscopy. Its services cover thoracic surgical diseases of the lung, oesophagus, mediastinum, chest wall and other areas. It can perform all thoracic operations except lung transplantation, including lobectomy, precise segmentectomy, sleeve resection of the lung, pneumonectomy, tracheal carina reconstruction, radical oesophagectomy for oesophageal cancer, resection of various complex mediastinal tumours with artificial vascular replacement, and diagnosis and treatment of chest-wall deformities, complex chest trauma, bullae and hyperhidrosis of the hands. The department’s distinctive services currently focus on diagnosis and treatment of pulmonary nodules and related technologies, comprehensive treatment of oesophageal cancer, and minimally invasive procedures such as uniportal thoracoscopy. It performs 3D-navigation thoracoscopic precise combined resection of pulmonary segments or subsegments for pulmonary nodules, non-invasive localisation and ERAS enhanced recovery. It has held multiple sessions on 3D-navigation precise pulmonary segment and subsegment resection for pulmonary nodules and, based on extensive clinical experience, published and distributed the Atlas of Practical 3D-Navigation Segmentectomy for Early Lung Cancer. It conducts clinical frontier studies such as postoperative adjuvant targeted therapy for non-small-cell lung cancer and perioperative chemotherapy plus immunotherapy, as well as standardized comprehensive treatment for oesophageal cancer including neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy or neoadjuvant chemotherapy plus immunotherapy. The nursing team has extensive clinical nursing experience in perioperative care for thoracic diseases, specialist nursing for acute and critical illness, early assessment of perioperative patient-care risks, nutritional assessment, enhanced recovery nursing, pulmonary rehabilitation nursing and whole-course pain nursing. Consultation telephone: 0755-83923333 ext. 2705/2706/2713.