Department of General Surgery
Department of General Surgery, one of the earliest founded departments, was initially established in 1956. Being a key unit of Beijing Jishuitan Hospital, which is a well-known tertiary referral general hospital in China, it is also the backbone teaching force of the Fourth Clinical Medical College of Peking University. More than sixty years past, under the leadership of several successive directo…
Department of General Surgery, one of the earliest founded departments, was initially established in 1956. Being a key unit of Beijing Jishuitan Hospital, which is a well-known tertiary referral general hospital in China, it is also the backbone teaching force of the Fourth Clinical Medical College of Peking University. More than sixty years past, under the leadership of several successive directors, General Surgery Department has achieved remarkable merits in the medical, nursing, teaching and scientific research work.
In 2013, general surgery wards were migrated to a brand new general hospital, Jishuitan Hospital Huilongguan branch, where there has been a new elegant and comfortable consultant environment, advanced medical equipment in the world, first-class digital operating rooms, professional medical team and excellent nursing group. Keep according to hospital motto, "sincerity, skill, carefully", all the staffs will comply with the Hippocratic Oath, and wholeheartedly provides with high quality of health care services.
A brief introduction:
Quantity of beds: total 70 beds, including six beds settled in Intensive Care Unit
Personnel: 5 chief physicians, 4 deputy chief physicians, 8 attendings, and 8 residents. 10 physicians own master’s degree, and 6 own doctor’s degree, 2 person owns the experience of post doctor.
Clinic Mission:
The scope of treatment covers the general surgery diseases, including hepatobiliopancreatic surgery, gland surgery, gastrointestinal surgery, weight loss and diabetes surgery, and vascular surgery. Great deal of achievements have been obtained, and briefly listed as below:
Laparoscopic minimally invasive surgery team has carried out the laparoscopic technique since 1993, which is also one of the first established sub-specialties in the field of general surgery in Beijing area. So far, above 5000 cases of laparoscopic operation have been performed successfully. At present, our team can provide treatment for patients with liver cancer, gallstones, bile duct stones, pancreatic tumor, spleen disease, gastric and colorectal cancer, abdominal wall hernia, thyroid disease, appendicitis, abdominal adhesion, bariatric accompanied with diabetes in endoscopic minimally invasive way. What the excellent curative effect of operation achieved depends on the leading surgical instruments, like digital high definition, three-dimensional endoscopic equipment, quality of care and advanced management concept. At present, this team ranks leading level in laparoscopic surgery in Beijing.
Abdominal trauma:
Relying on advantages, which there are quantities of multiple trauma patients in Jishuitan Hospital, general surgery accumulated rich experience in treatment of patients with severe thoracic, abdominal and anus injury with multiple fracture, especially in the rescue of critically ill patients and comprehensive treatment, which is also at a leading level in Beijing.
Treatment and research for hyperparathyroidism
Hyperparathyroidism is rare seen and easily misdiagnose. General surgery department of our hospital has accumulated a great deal of experience on the diagnosis and treatment for 150 cases. From diagnosis of nature determination to location, perioperative and recovery period set up series of specific treatment regimes. General surgery is in a leading level in diagnosis and treatment for this disease in domestic.
Specialty of anus and rectum surgery
Anorectal disease is a common disease, and it seriously affect the quality of life. The treatments for hemorrhoids include drug treatment, conventional hemorrhoidectomy, new PPH procedure, copper ion electrochemistry therapy, sclerotherapy, aprons ligation technique and advanced multifunctional anorectal treatment instrument application, which lead to high effects of the diagnosis and treatment for anorectal disease. For those lower rectal malignancies, the laparoscopic surgery technique developed recently can improve the rate of tumor resection and anal preservation.
Pilonidal sinus and cyst is a chronic sinus or cyst located at caudal gluteal cleft of the soft tissue, and hair inside is its characteristic, and it can also be manifested as repeatedly acute abscess of sacrococcygeal. People more than 20 or 30 years old after puberty is easily subject to. Surgery is the main treatment approach, but the recurrence rate is relatively high. A great deal of cases have been cured in our department, where the success rate of the first stage resection of the sinus is greatly achieved, and the duration of in hospital is shortened.
Teaching:
Since 1977, the department of general surgery of Beijing Jishuitan Hospital began to undertake the clinical teaching mission for Peking University Health Science Center. After several generations of efforts, general surgery become the main teaching force, and clinical teaching base of Peking University Health Science Center and Tsinghua University School of medicine, and Beijing city resident training base. At the same time, successive education and medical team construction have been paid attention, like selecting young doctors to go abroad to study, and taking part in a variety of academic exchanges and training, which help reserve force for the sustainable development for the department.
Scientific research work:
Department has been attached great importance to the development of scientific research work, and actively participate in various academic activities, academic exchanges. More than 100 papers have been published in the first class domestic academic journals in recent 5 years, and one research was awarded of Second prize Beijing municipal science and technology achievements. Three projects have been sponsored by Beijing Natural Science Fund and Research Initiating Fund for Returned Overseas Scholar of the Ministry of Education, respectively. One person has been funded by the "thousand talents" program, which is one of a branch of Beijing Municipal "Ten, Hundred, thousand" health personnel funded projects.
Department of General Surgery, one of the earliest founded departments, was initially established in 1956. Being a key unit of Beijing Jishuitan Hospital, which is a well-known tertiary referral general hospital in China, it is also the backbone teaching force of the Fourth Clinical Medical College of Peking University. More than sixty years past, under the leadership of several successive directo…