Infectious Diseases

Renji Hospital's Infectious Diseases Department was established in November 2004. Its independent ward building, completed on January 5, 2022, has five floors above ground and one below, with a total floor area of 5,000 square meters. Following the COVID-19 pandemic, the hospital describes the department as an important force in infection prevention and control with a developed medical team and talent pipeline. Its staff include one chief physician, two associate chief physicians, one associate researcher, two master's supervisors, four attending physicians and five resident physicians. Guided by the hospital's stated values of commitment, practical work and innovation, the department has developed a clinical focus on infections in immunocompromised patients and experience with severe infections involving multidrug-resistant organisms, intestinal sources and complex pulmonary infections. As a demonstration infectious disease treatment center in Pudong New Area, it has ten negative-pressure isolation rooms and equipment including ventilators, high-flow oxygen devices, a flexible bronchoscope, blood purification equipment, ECMO and an intra-aortic balloon pump for critically ill patients. The fever clinic on the first floor of the infectious diseases building has three separate consultation rooms and dedicated registration, laboratory, CT and pharmacy services. The department's microbiota diagnosis and treatment center uses fecal microbiota transplantation as a focus for standardized treatment of refractory Clostridioides difficile infection and conducts clinical research on refractory diarrhea, constipation, radiation enteritis, malnutrition and hepatic encephalopathy.