Otolaryngology

The Department of Otolaryngology currently has 26 medical and nursing staff members, including 5 chief physicians, 3 associate chief physicians, and 3 attending physicians. There are 2 supervisors of master's students. The department currently has 80 officially operational beds, 3,500 inpatient admissions annually, nearly 900 surgical procedures annually, and more than 39,000 outpatient visits annually. At present, our department is equipped with Danish-imported pure-tone audiometry and acoustic immittance equipment, an otoacoustic emissions analyzer, a nasal resistance testing instrument, a Japanese Olympus electronic laryngoscopy examination system, a contact sleep monitor for children, a Stryker nasal surgical power and monitoring system, a plasma surgical unit, a nasal ultrasound therapy instrument, a nasal laser therapy instrument, a tympanic membrane massage therapy instrument, and a microwave therapy instrument. Our department also cooperates with several hospitals in China to perform cochlear implant surgery and complex otologic surgery, and is at the leading domestic level. In the treatment of otolaryngological diseases with traditional Chinese medicine, we highlight characteristic TCM treatments and provide comprehensive treatment for difficult diseases such as tinnitus and deafness, sudden deafness, and otogenic vertigo, including acupuncture, acupoint injection, transacupoint delivery of Chinese herbal medicine, hyperbaric oxygen, and intratympanic injection; the therapeutic effect is significant and the recurrence rate is low. Integrated traditional Chinese and Western medicine treatment of allergic rhinitis, postoperative recovery from sinusitis, refractory pharyngitis, laryngeal cough, vocal cord nodules and polyps, and pediatric rhinitis produces good therapeutic effects. As a department of the medical university, our department has completed 2 projects funded by the National Natural Science Foundation, 1 project funded by the Autonomous Region Natural Science Foundation, and 4 university- and bureau-level projects.