Main Campus Spine Surgery Department

The Department of Spinal Surgery of Qingdao Municipal Hospital is a Shandong Provincial Clinical Key Specialty, a Qingdao Key Medical and Health Discipline, the Qingdao Minimally Invasive Spinal Surgery Center, and a national standardized residency training base. It comprises the Spinal Surgery Department at the Main Campus and the Spinal Surgery Department at the East Campus. The Spinal Surgery Department at the Main Campus has 24 medical and nursing staff members, including 1 medical postdoctoral fellow, 1 medical doctor, 5 medical master's degree holders, 1 chief physician, 3 deputy chief physicians, 3 attending physicians, 3 nurses-in-charge, and 6 nurses with bachelor's degrees. Several physicians have received further training in spinal and spinal cord surgery techniques at the Twin Cities Spine Center in Minnesota, USA, the Rhine-Ruhr Medical Center in Germany, and the Wuppertal Neurosurgery Center in Germany. The department has strong technical capabilities and a well-structured academic and professional talent team. The spinal surgery nursing unit is one of the first high-quality nursing demonstration wards in Qingdao. In 2011, the nursing team received the hospital's first title of “Shandong Provincial High-Quality Nursing Demonstration Ward”.

The department is equipped with 2 multifunctional ECG monitors, 1 infusion pump, 3 drug-delivery therapy machines, 3 superconducting machines, 1 defibrillator, 1 CPM lower-limb functional rehabilitation device, 1 bedside electrocardiograph, and 1 ultraviolet disinfection cart.

The department mainly treats:

1) Cervical disc herniation, cervical spinal canal stenosis, ossification of the posterior longitudinal ligament of the cervical spine, and various types of cervical spondylosis

2) Lumbar disc herniation, lumbar spinal canal stenosis, discogenic low back pain, and lumbar spondylolisthesis

3) Thoracic disc herniation, spinal canal stenosis, ossification of the posterior longitudinal ligament of the thoracic spine, and ossification of the ligamentum flavum of the thoracic spine

4) Spinal fractures, dislocations, and spinal cord injuries

5) Cervical deformities, scoliosis, kyphosis, and spinal cord deformities

6) Primary and metastatic spinal tumors, and intraspinal tumors

7) Spinal tuberculosis, pyogenic spondylitis, intervertebral space infection, ankylosing spondylitis, and other conditions

The department's main advanced technologies:

1. Reduction, bone grafting, and fusion techniques for upper cervical deformities and atlantoaxial dislocation

2. Cervical pedicle screw fixation for the treatment of cervical fracture-dislocation and cervical diseases

3. Corrective surgery for scoliosis and kyphotic spinal deformities

4. Surgical treatment of spinal fracture-dislocation and spinal cord injury, particularly cervical spine injury

5. Minimally invasive treatment of lumbar disc herniation and spinal canal stenosis using transforaminal endoscopy

6. Minimally invasive anterior and posterior cervical techniques for the treatment of cervical disc herniation

7. Thoracolumbar surgery through minimally invasive channels; MIS-TLIF minimally invasive transforaminal fusion; DLIF minimally invasive lateral fusion; and OLIF and ALIF minimally invasive oblique-anterior fusion techniques

8. Percutaneous vertebroplasty for osteoporotic thoracolumbar compression fractures in older adults

9. Minimally invasive treatment of thoracolumbar fractures and diseases using percutaneous pedicle screw fixation

10. Low-temperature plasma radiofrequency ablation for discogenic neck, shoulder, low back, and leg pain

11. En bloc radical resection of spinal tumors, resection of spinal cord tumors, and lesion curettage, bone grafting, and internal fixation for spinal tuberculosis

The Spinal Surgery Department at the Main Campus of the Spinal Surgery Center of Qingdao Municipal Hospital will provide you with the highest-quality health services through the strength of a powerful team, robust professional expertise, superb medical technology, a minimally invasive and precise surgical philosophy, compassionate nursing care, and internationally advanced rehabilitation standards!

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