Wound Repair Center

The Wound Repair Center of Ruijin Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine was established in 2016 and is one of the earliest institutions in China to establish an independently organized wound repair department. It is primarily responsible for the diagnosis and treatment of all types of chronic, difficult-to-heal wounds, including all wounds other than severe burn (traumatic) injuries, such as diabetic foot wounds, pressure-ulcer wounds (bedsores), vascular ulcer wounds, various iatrogenic wounds (postoperative wound dehiscence, postoperative wound infection or rejection of artificial implants, skin ulcers after radiotherapy and chemotherapy), stomas, cancerous wounds, cutaneous sinus tracts, and so on. The Ruijin Hospital Wound Repair Center is the leading institution for the development of wound repair departments in China and is a teaching base for the National Health Commission’s “Specialized Competency Training Program for Wound Repair.” Relying on the Shanghai Wound Repair Research Center as the discipline’s scientific research support platform, it has formed a professional technical team integrating medicine, nursing, medical technology, teaching, and research, with strong innovation capacity. The Ruijin Hospital Wound Repair Center pioneered the endoscopic treatment technique for sinus-tract wounds, thereby increasing the average healing time for sinus-tract wounds to 18 days; this technique has become a signature treatment of our department. Ruijin Hospital is one of the earliest institutions in China to conduct clinical research on difficult-to-heal wounds. Under the leadership of academic leaders represented by Professor Lu Shuliang, through the implementation of national-level research projects such as “973” and the “National Natural Science Foundation,” wound-repair-related achievements have received 1 First Prize of the National Science and Technology Progress Award; the Center has served as chief editor of and participated in editing “Chinese Guidelines for Wound Repair,” “Wound Repair Physician Training Manual,” and other monographs related to industry standards and guidelines; published papers such as “Approaches and Principles for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Chronic Wounds in China”; proposed a classification theory for sinus-tract wounds, a relatively common but difficult-to-treat type of chronic wound; and developed “Treatment of Chronic Sinus-Tract (Cavity) Wounds with Endoscopy and Its Auxiliary Techniques” (validated by the Expert Committee for the Standardized Development of Wound Repair of the Chinese Medical Doctor Association).