Orthopaedic Surgery

The Department of Orthopedics of Shandong University Qilu Hospital was founded in 1949 and was established and developed by Professor Zhao Changlin, the hospital director at that time and a renowned orthopedic expert. At present, the Department of Orthopedics has 4 wards: Spine Surgery, Bone and Soft Tissue Tumor Surgery, Joint and Sports Medicine Surgery, and Hand and Foot Surgery; 216 beds are officially open, and there are 4 intensive care units. It is equipped with advanced medical equipment, including intraoperative 3D-CT, a spinal surgery neurophysiological monitoring system, a microwave therapy device, a bone injury treatment device, an arteriovenous pulse system, a continuous passive motion machine, a high-speed burr drill, a microscope, a discoscope, a transforaminal endoscope, an arthroscope, a C-arm, a joint lavage system, a thrombosis pump, and an ice blanket. The annual average outpatient volume exceeds 60,000 visits, and the annual average surgical volume is 4,500 operations. The department has strong technical expertise, with 7 professors and chief physicians holding senior professional titles, 14 associate professors, and 15 attending physicians. Among them, 21 hold doctoral degrees and 11 hold master's degrees. Its specialties cover bone and soft tissue tumor surgery, spine surgery, joint surgery, trauma surgery, hand and foot surgery, and other fields.

I. Clinical work:

In addition to independently performing the procedures stipulated for key specialties by the Ministry of Health, including internal fixation of limb and spinal fractures, total knee arthroplasty, revision of artificial joints, arthroscopic cruciate ligament reconstruction, hip arthroplasty, arthroscopic surgery of the shoulder, elbow, hip, and knee, core decompression and muscle-bone flap transplantation for the femoral head, posterior cervical laminoplasty, anterior cervical spinal canal decompression and internal fixation, scoliosis correction, decompression for thoracic spinal canal stenosis, minimally invasive spinal surgery, lumbar fenestration discectomy, spinal tumor resection, limb-salvage surgery for malignant tumors, tumor artificial joint replacement, sacral tumor resection, pelvic tumor resection, and microsurgical procedures such as replantation of amputated limbs, the department can also perform total en bloc spondylectomy for spinal tumors; application of gastrocnemius muscle flaps and tibialis anterior muscle flaps in resection and reconstruction of proximal tibial tumors; lesion curettage, bone grafting, and quadratus femoris muscle-bone flap transplantation for aseptic necrosis of the femoral head; lumbosacral-iliac fixation; lamina osteotomy and replantation; cervical artificial disc replacement; single posterior-approach osteotomy and correction of spinal deformities; sacral tumor resection under abdominal aortic balloon occlusion; extra-articular total knee resection; sleeve-type revision prostheses; joint replacement after cardiac transplantation; minimally invasive surgery through the lateral intermuscular plane outside the multifidus muscle for thoracolumbar diseases; lumbar endoscopic and transforaminal endoscopic discectomy; minimally invasive procedures such as lumbar minimally invasive TLIF; lumbar nucleus pulposus replacement; transoral-transpharyngeal odontoidectomy; foramen magnum decompression; bone graft fusion and internal fixation; joint replacement for intertrochanteric fractures in elderly patients; interventional treatment of ischemic necrosis of the femoral head; ankle replacement; shoulder arthroscopy; LARS reconstruction for cruciate ligament rupture; and many other internationally and domestically pioneering and distinctive techniques.

II. Teaching work

In 1983, Orthopedics became one of the first disciplines in the hospital approved by the State Council to confer master's degrees. In 1998, it became the first discipline in the provincial orthopedic field approved to confer doctoral degrees. There are currently 4 doctoral supervisors and 10 master's supervisors. Over the past five years, the department has trained more than 100 postdoctoral fellows, doctoral students, and master's students. It also undertakes the teaching of eight-year, seven-year, and five-year undergraduate students at the Medical School of Shandong University. During the past five years, it has attracted 110 physicians from hospitals throughout the country, including Sichuan, Guizhou, Xinjiang, and Chongqing, to come to the hospital for further training.

III. Research work and academic exchange

Under the leadership of Director Li Jianmin, the academic activities of the Department of Orthopedic Surgery of Shandong University Qilu Hospital have developed by leaps and bounds, and the department's technical level and research capabilities have received high recognition in China. At the annual international COA conference organized by the Orthopaedic Branch of the Chinese Medical Association, the number of oral presentations and posters has consistently ranked first among major hospitals in Shandong Province. Its research level leads the province. As a leading institution for orthopedic research in Shandong Province, the Department of Orthopedics of Shandong University Qilu Hospital has published more than 200 papers in international (SCI) and domestic core academic journals over the past five years, edited or co-edited more than 30 academic books, undertaken more than 30 research projects funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the Department of Science and Technology of Shandong Province, and the Department of Health, produced more than 20 achievements, and received more than 10 awards in total, including second- and third-class Shandong Provincial Science and Technology Progress Awards and Medical Science and Technology Progress Awards.

At present, many members serve as committee members of the Orthopaedic Branch of the Chinese Medical Association; committee members of its Bone Tumor Group; committee members of its Spinal Surgery Group; committee members of its Joint Surgery Group; deputy chairpersons of the Youth Committee of the Sports Medicine Branch of the Chinese Medical Association; standing committee members of the Trauma Surgery Branch of the Chinese Medical Association; committee members of the Professional Committee on Spine and Spinal Cord Injury of the Chinese Association of Rehabilitation Medicine; standing committee members of the Committee on Spinal and Joint Diseases of the Chinese Gerontology Society; standing committee members of the Sarcoma Professional Committee of the Chinese Anti-Cancer Association; standing committee members of the Professional Committee on Bone, Joint, and Rheumatic Diseases of the Chinese Association of Rehabilitation Medicine; committee members of the Orthopaedic Physicians Branch of the Chinese Medical Doctor Association; chairpersons and deputy chairpersons of the Orthopaedic Branch of the Shandong Medical Association; chairpersons of the Shandong Trauma Society; chairpersons of the Orthopaedic Branch of the Shandong Medical Doctor Association; chairpersons of the Committee on Geriatric Spinal and Joint Diseases of the Shandong Gerontology Society; and chairpersons or deputy chairpersons of the groups of the Orthopaedic Branch of the Shandong Medical Association, including the Minimally Invasive Group, Osteoporosis Group, Spine Group, Bone Tumor Group, Arthroscopy Group, Joint Group, and Trauma Group.

Many members serve as editorial board members and corresponding editorial board members of the Chinese Journal of Surgery, Chinese Journal of Orthopaedics, Chinese Journal of Joint Surgery, Biological Bone Materials and Clinical Research, Chinese Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery, Chinese Bone Tumor and Bone Disease, Chinese Journal of Reparative and Reconstructive Surgery, Chinese Journal of Spine and Spinal Cord, Journal of Spinal Surgery, Journal of Clinical Orthopaedics, Shandong Medical Journal, Journal of Cervicodynia and Lumbodynia, Chinese Journal of Bone and Joint, and Chinese Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery.

Over the past 5 years, more than 30 person-times have gone to the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Germany, Italy, Spain, Japan, and other countries and regions for long- or short-term study and academic exchange.