Peking University Shenzhen Hospital

Paediatrics

The Department of Pediatrics at Peking University Shenzhen Hospital was established in 1999, together with the opening of the hospital. After more than 20 years of accumulation and dedicated development, Pediatrics has become a comprehensive clinical department integrating medical care, teaching, scientific research, and preventive healthcare, and is a key department prioritized for development in a high-level hospital. It has long been responsible for the main medical treatment and rescue tasks for the large number of children and newborns in Shenzhen and surrounding areas. The department currently has 25 doctors and 40 nursing personnel. Among them are 7 chief physicians, 9 deputy chief physicians, 5 doctoral degree holders, and 12 master's degree holders, all of whom graduated from key medical colleges and universities nationwide. There are 4 professors/associate professors of pediatrics and 3 graduate supervisors, and 3-5 master's students are trained each year. The department has many personnel holding national-level academic appointments, including a vice president of the Pediatric Branch of the Chinese Medical Rescue Association, a standing committee member of the Pediatric Critical Care Physicians Branch of the Chinese Medical Doctor Association, a chairperson of the Special Committee on Pediatric Trauma Emergency and Surgical Critical Care of the Chinese Medical Doctor Association, a member of the Pediatrics Group of the Emergency Medicine Branch of the Chinese Medical Association, a member of the Pediatrics Group of the Special Committee on Extracorporeal Life Support of the Chinese Medical Doctor Association, and a member of the Emergency Care Group of the Pediatricians Branch of the Chinese Medical Doctor Association. It has 1 instructor for US AHA pediatric basic and advanced life support training and serves as a deputy-chair institution of the Shenzhen Pediatric Clinical Quality Control Center. The department has multiple pieces/sets of advanced medical equipment worth nearly RMB 10 million: 6 invasive ventilators, 20 non-invasive ventilators, 3 pediatric fiberoptic bronchoscopy systems, a pulmonary function system, a bedside ultrasound machine, a transcutaneous carbon dioxide monitoring system, an inhaled NO therapy system, more than 30 infant incubators and multifunctional resuscitation tables, and 1 transport incubator for critically ill newborns. It also has a high-fidelity medical teaching manikin simulation system, a clean neonatal monitoring ward, and other facilities. At present, Pediatrics provides pediatric outpatient services, emergency services, and inpatient wards. The wards include a general pediatric ward, a neonatal ward, and a NICU ward, with a total of 72 beds. The scope of services covers the diagnosis and treatment of newborns, pediatric respiratory diseases, endocrinology, child healthcare, follow-up of high-risk children, cardiovascular diseases, neurological diseases, digestive diseases, and other specialty conditions. Multiple specialized outpatient clinics are available, including the Allergy/Chronic Cough/Asthma Specialty Clinic, the Childhood Short Stature/Precocious Puberty Clinic, the Infant and Young Child Hemangioma Clinic, the Pediatric Allergy and Nutrition Specialty Clinic, the Child Healthcare Clinic, the High-Risk Child Follow-up Clinic, and the Infant Motor TIMP Assessment Clinic. The department has a variety of advanced diagnostic and treatment methods, including pediatric bronchoscopy, pediatric pulmonary function testing, allergen testing and desensitization treatment, precision treatment of allergic diseases and multidisciplinary collaboration, exchange transfusion, bone age determination, and pediatric rehabilitation. In addition to having a high level of diagnosis and treatment for common neonatal diseases, the Neonatology specialty also has a high level of treatment for critical conditions including the comprehensive treatment of extremely/very preterm infants and extremely low birth weight infants, neonatal asphyxia resuscitation, meconium aspiration syndrome, neonatal respiratory distress syndrome, neonatal sepsis, and severe neonatal hyperbilirubinemia. Pediatrics is a national specialty base for standardized residency training and a training base for general practitioners, with many experienced teaching instructors. The base has repeatedly been rated an excellent teaching and research department of the hospital and has repeatedly won first prizes in the residency training case analysis competition, the excellent medical record competition, and other contests. It has many excellent teaching instructors at the national, provincial, and municipal levels. Each year, it undertakes the training and teaching of a large number of undergraduate medical interns from various university medical schools. It has received approval for multiple national-, provincial-, and municipal-level research projects and publishes many academic papers each year in domestic and international core journals. It has hosted high-quality academic conferences in pediatrics many times. In the future, the people of Pediatrics will take the high-quality development of Peking University Shenzhen Hospital as an opportunity, take informatization as the leading force, focus on the diagnosis and treatment of difficult and critical diseases, neonatology, respiratory diseases, child healthcare, neurorehabilitation, and other conditions, strengthen regional medical and scientific research cooperation both domestically and internationally, deepen specialty development, continuously improve comprehensive medical and service standards, and build an advanced department trusted by patients.