Paediatrics

The Department of Pediatrics of the Affiliated Hospital of Inner Mongolia Medical University was established in 1958. After more than 50 years of development, it is now a “Key Clinical Medical Discipline of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region” integrating clinical care, teaching, and research; it is also the region’s only key pediatric discipline and only site authorized to award a master’s degree in pediatrics. The pediatric teaching and research section was twice rated an outstanding pediatric-course unit at university and autonomous-region level, and in 2015 an excellent teaching and research section.

The department has 130 open beds: 100 pediatric medical beds, 20 neonatal beds, and 10 pediatric intensive-care beds. It accepts patients with diseases of all pediatric systems and difficult or critical illnesses from throughout the region and neighboring provinces and cities. Annual outpatient and emergency visits, admissions and discharges, bed utilization, successful rescue of critically ill patients, and cure and improvement rates all rank first among pediatric specialties in the region. The department has strong medical and technical capabilities, a rational staffing structure, and emphasizes personnel training. Staff are systematically sent to Japan, Beijing, Shanghai, and elsewhere for advanced study, while various forms of professional learning are conducted in stages.

Following the principle of “comprehensive development with focused strengths,” the specialty has independently established a neonatal ward and pediatric intensive-care unit in addition to general pediatric medicine. The neonatal ward was officially established on September 15, 2009, and has 41 medical and nursing staff, including 2 chief physicians/professors, 2 associate chief physicians, and 1 master’s supervisor; all nurses have at least junior-college education. The NICU has imported incubators for premature infants, conventional and high-frequency ventilators, bedside electrocardiographs, arterial blood-gas analyzers, phototherapy equipment, and other advanced devices. It provides continuous positive airway-pressure ventilation, conventional and high-frequency ventilation, parenteral nutrition, PICC placement, and other treatments. About 300 critically ill neonates are treated annually, with a 99% rescue-success rate. Neonatal exchange transfusion is used for ABO- and Rh-incompatibility hemolytic disease to prevent bilirubin encephalopathy. Patients range from birth to 28 days and include premature infants, neonatal jaundice, asphyxia, hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy, infection, NEC, respiratory failure, convulsions, shock, gastrointestinal failure, and postoperative neonates. Treatment of extremely/very low-birth-weight infants, neonatal respiratory-distress syndrome, meconium aspiration, persistent pulmonary hypertension, NEC, shock, severe pneumonia, sepsis, and other diseases has reached the domestic advanced level. Congenital malformations and inherited metabolic diseases can be diagnosed promptly. Follow-up is provided after discharge, with trace-element and bone alkaline-phosphatase testing, infant intelligence scoring, and Peabody and NBNA assessment and guidance, enabling systematic evaluation of physical and intellectual development and feeding and rehabilitation guidance.

The pediatric intensive-care unit was officially established on October 12, 2015. It has specially trained, experienced staff and complete monitoring and emergency-treatment equipment. It has 8 doctors, 17 nurses, and 10 beds, equipped with bedside monitors, a central workstation, invasive and noninvasive ventilators, a defibrillator, bedside continuous blood-filtration equipment, blood-gas analyzers, electronic cooling caps and blankets, rewarming blankets, ECG machines, syringe and infusion pumps, enteral-nutrition pumps, capillary-glucose meters, a mobile arterial-blood analyzer, sputum-clearance equipment, and other advanced domestic devices. CRRT and PICC are also performed. It admits critically ill children aged 28 days to 14 years with severe trauma; critical postoperative conditions; acute cardiac, hepatic, renal, pulmonary, or cerebral failure; ARDS; shock; DIC; post-cardiopulmonary-cerebral resuscitation; severe water, electrolyte, or acid-base disorders; acute drug or toxin poisoning; severe accidental injury; need for respiratory support; consciousness disorders, especially recurrent convulsions; severe infection; MODS; and other critical illnesses.

The pediatric outpatient department has a comfortable environment and rational layout, including expert consultations, specialty clinics for asthma, epilepsy, endocrinology, and nephrology, emergency consultation, blood collection and treatment, nebulization, functional services, and an infusion hall. It provides ECG, active standing tests, the C13 breath test, intelligence testing, pediatric rehabilitation, and other services, receiving unanimous parental praise. As attendance increases, staff actively learn new services and technologies to serve children better.

The pediatric medical ward is led by senior-title physicians and has specialty groups in respiratory medicine, neurology, nephrology, hematology, rheumatology and immunology, gastroenterology, cardiology, endocrinology, and other fields. Each group has at least 2 members trained externally; diagnostic and treatment standards are aligned with the domestic advanced level. Staff cooperate closely, innovate actively, and continually expand clinical services.