Infectious Diseases

Department Overview: Department of Infectious Diseases. The department has a total of 32 staff members. There are 11 clinical physicians, namely 3 professors (chief physicians), 2 associate professors (deputy chief physicians), 3 attending physicians, and 3 resident physicians; among them, 2 hold doctoral degrees and 5 hold master’s degrees. There are 2 medical laboratory technologists, both associate chief technologists; and 19 nursing staff, including 3 associate chief nurses, 11 nurse practitioners, and 5 nurses. The department has 33 available beds, admits more than 900 patients annually, has more than 20,000 outpatient visits annually, and performs more than 52,000 laboratory tests annually. It is equipped with a blood purification–artificial liver support system, fully automatic ventilators, noninvasive ventilators, liver disease treatment devices, colon dialysis machines, sputum suction devices, cardiac monitors, electrocardiographs, defibrillators, micro-infusion pumps, time-resolved analyzers, centrifuges, automatic plate washers, ultra-low-temperature freezers, biological safety cabinets, water-jacketed constant-temperature incubators, and other equipment. Our department also undertakes prevention and control as well as diagnosis and treatment during outbreaks and epidemics of various major emergent infectious diseases. Scope of Services (including academic and scientific research achievements): The Department of Infectious Diseases is divided into the Liver Disease Specialty, Respiratory Infectious Disease Specialty, and Intestinal Disease Specialty, and mainly treats various infectious diseases, acute and chronic hepatitis caused by different etiologies, cirrhosis and related complications, infectious diarrhea, and fever of unknown origin, as well as providing diagnosis, differential diagnosis, and treatment for various infectious diseases. It specializes in standardized antiviral treatment for chronic hepatitis B, hepatitis C, cirrhosis, and liver cancer, as well as the diagnosis and treatment of fever of unknown origin. The department provides consultation on various types of hepatitis and liver disease-related knowledge, including management of hepatitis B carriers, prevention of hepatitis B, interpretation of laboratory tests such as those for abnormal liver function, guidance on daily life, diet, exercise, emotional well-being, and other aspects of care for patients with liver disease, counseling and guidance regarding reproductive issues for patients with viral liver disease, and prevention of mother-to-child transmission. The department currently has 1 supervisor of master's students. It currently undertakes 5 autonomous-region scientific research projects, has published more than 60 papers, and has participated in compiling 5 textbooks. Specialized Medical Technologies of the Department: (1) Antiviral treatment and immunomodulatory treatment for chronic viral hepatitis B and C; (2) rescue treatment for critically ill patients with severe hepatitis, various complications of decompensated cirrhosis, septic shock, and other critical conditions; (3) diagnosis and differential diagnosis of fever of unknown origin; (4) infectious diseases: diagnosis and treatment of febrile rash diseases, intestinal infectious diseases, and central nervous system infectious diseases. Outpatient Telephone: 3451646, Building 4 (Outpatient Department), 1st Floor, North Side. Ward Nurses' Station Telephone: 3451614, Building 3 (Inpatient Department 2), 1st Floor, North Side.