Anaesthesiology

Department Overview: Department of Anesthesiology (Operating Room), a leading specialty in the autonomous region. The department has 151 personnel in total, including 51 medical personnel, 18 chief physicians, 7 deputy chief physicians, 12 attending physicians, and 14 resident physicians; among them, 3 hold doctoral degrees and 23 hold master’s degrees. There are also 6 master’s supervisors. There are 93 nursing personnel and 7 technical support personnel; among them are 13 deputy chief nurses, 18 charge nurses, 24 nurses, 25 staff nurses, and 13 assistant nurses. The Department of Anesthesiology has 22 operating rooms, 1 anesthesia preparation room, 1 anesthesia recovery room, a pain outpatient clinic and ward, and anesthesia for painless examinations and treatments outside the operating room. Each operating room is equipped with domestically and internationally advanced anesthesia machine monitoring systems, target-controlled infusion pumps, and electrosurgical units. It also has advanced ultrasonic scalpels, cardiopulmonary bypass machines, blood recovery machines, fiberoptic bronchoscopes, video laryngoscopes, Vigileo systems, BIS monitors, neuromuscular monitoring devices, GE ultrasound systems, intra-aortic balloon pumps, and ventilators. During the past three years, 30,000 surgical anesthesia cases have been completed annually, and anesthesia for difficult and critically ill patients accounts for 60%. Scope of Services (including academic and scientific research achievements): At present, the Department of Anesthesiology performs three major areas of work: surgical anesthesia for 16 clinical departments, pain diagnosis and treatment, and painless treatment. Anesthesia in the operating room mainly includes anesthesia for cardiac and great-vessel surgery, neurosurgical anesthesia, intraoperative awakening anesthesia in neurosurgery, thoracic surgery anesthesia, orthopedic surgery anesthesia, general surgery, gynecology, obstetrics, ophthalmology and otolaryngology anesthesia, vascular surgery anesthesia, dental anesthesia, ultrasound-guided nerve blocks, and intraoperative transesophageal echocardiographic hemodynamic examination. Pain diagnosis and treatment: (I) Scope of diagnosis and treatment at the pain outpatient clinic 1. Head and facial pain: migraine, tension headache, cluster headache, cervicogenic headache, trigeminal neuralgia, glossopharyngeal neuralgia, occipital neuralgia, atypical facial pain, temporomandibular arthritis, etc. 2. Neck, shoulder, waist and leg pain: all types of cervical spondylosis, periarthritis of the shoulder, cervical and lumbar intervertebral disc herniation, acute lumbar sprain, third lumbar transverse process syndrome, etc. 3. Various acute and chronic traumatic pains of soft tissue: myofascial syndrome, fibromyalgia syndrome, soft-tissue injury, etc. 4. Tendon and bursa diseases: ganglion cyst of the tendon sheath, tenosynovitis, bursitis, tennis elbow, trigger finger, etc. 5. Degenerative diseases of the spine and joints: pain caused by degenerative changes of the spine, primary osteoporosis, and various osteoarthritis conditions, including periarthritis of the shoulder, knee arthritis, hip arthritis, sacroiliac arthritis, etc. 6. Neuropathic pain: herpes zoster and postherpetic neuralgia, phantom-limb pain, stump pain, diabetic neuritis, etc. 7. Peripheral vascular and autonomic nervous diseases: Raynaud’s disease, thromboangiitis obliterans, sympathetic-related pain, complex regional pain syndrome, etc. 8. Various cancer pains: cancer pain at all stages can be treated, including outpatient and inpatient treatment. 9. Complex systemic pain: central pain, undetermined complaint syndrome. 10. Immune- and metabolism-related painful diseases: rheumatoid arthritis, ankylosing spondylitis, gout, etc. 11. Non-painful diseases: intractable hiccups, acute facial neuritis (facial paralysis), facial muscle spasm, sudden deafness and tinnitus, autonomic nervous dysfunction, etc. (II) Scope of minimally invasive interventional treatment 1. Cervical and lumbar intervertebral disc herniation 2. Trigeminal neuralgia 3. Severe pain from advanced cancer 4. Herpes zoster pain and postherpetic neuralgia 5. Sympathetic-related diseases such as vasculitis and Raynaud’s disease 6. Morphine-pump implantation and spinal cord stimulation therapy Painless examinations and treatments: mainly include painless gastroscopy and colonoscopy, painless labor, painless oocyte retrieval, painless abortion, painless bronchoscopy, and anesthesia for other comfortable medical services. Scientific research achievements: 1 SCI paper, more than 200 papers in domestic core journals, 10 autonomous-region and scientific research projects, and more than 20 university- and hospital-level projects. Anesthesiology is a branded specialty of the autonomous region. Distinctive medical technologies of the department: blood conservation, blood recovery, ultrasound-guided nerve blocks, intraoperative transesophageal echocardiographic cardiac function monitoring, intraoperative awakening anesthesia in neurosurgery, anesthesia for painless examinations and treatments, and standardized postoperative analgesia. Pain treatment: 1. Various injection treatments: 2. Intravertebral canal lateral recess injection: 3. Paravertebral injection treatment: 4. Sympathetic ganglion injection: 5. Ozone therapy machine 6. Minimally invasive interventional surgery Outpatient telephone: 3451201, Room 4091 on the northwest side of the 4th floor of the New Outpatient Complex Building (outpatient location) Operating room telephone: 3451510, west side of the 2nd floor of Inpatient Department Building No. 1 (operating room location)