The Anesthesiology Department of the Second Hospital of Shandong University is one of the first clinical departments established in our hospital. Since October 2013, it has been divided into The First Department of Anesthesiology and The Second Department of Anesthesiology. After several generations of unremitting efforts, it has now formed specialties with its own characteristics and academic styles. It has a fairly high reputation in China. In 2000 and 2011, it was respectively granted with the rights to award the master’s degree and the doctoral degree (at present, there is no doctoral supervisor and master supervisor in the First Department of Anesthesiology). It is one of the first batch of doctoral programs of anesthesiology in Shandong Province. In 2011, it was rated as a Key Discipline of Shandong Province. In 2009, it was rated as a Clinical Pharmacology Base by the Ministry of Health. Through the joint efforts of the department staff, while accelerating the development of the department, it also obtains a good harvest of spiritual civilization. It has successively won the “Shandong University Youth Award” issued by Shandong University and the “Provincial Youth Civilization Unit” issued by the Shandong Provincial Committee of the Communist Youth League and the Shandong Provincial Department of Health.
Medical Members
The First Department of Anesthesiology now owns 25 members devoted to medicine, teaching and research, including 2 associate chief physicians, 7 attending physicians, and 7 residents. Among them, 90% are young and middle-aged under 45 years old, 6 of those have a doctoral degree, and more than 99% of those have a master degree. Adhering to the hospital motto of “Pursue perfection with morality; protect life with talents” and the department concept of “Take patients as the central focus; establish high reputation with good services”, Anesthesiology Department 1 serves patients wholeheartedly.
Clinical Medicine
The First Department of Anesthesiology has a young, studious, motivated, combat-worthy medical and nursing team with comprehensive technical strength and a reasonable academic talents structure. Under the leadership of the Director of the First Department of Anesthesiology, Pan Enmu, it focuses on strengthening the scientific research and clinical works of “the elderly and the children”, as well as difficult and critical cases such as non-cardiac surgery for heart disease patients, difficult airway, and high-risk pregnancy, etc. It has the capabilities of successfully completing various difficult and complex anesthesia for low-weight infants and elderly high-risk patients. It has also cooperated with other relevant departments to carry out some difficult and characteristic surgeries, such as off-pump coronary artery bypass grafting (OPCABG), heart transplantation, cochlear implantation, cervical giant tumor resection, lymphadenectomy and pectoralis major flag transplantation, tongue-jaw-neck radical operation of oral tumors and pectoralis major flag transplantation, 5-minute immediate cesarean section, painless delivery, revision hip arthroplasty, etc. In addition, the First Department of Anesthesiology has extensively carried out the clinical application of laryngeal masks and double-lumen endobronchial tube, transesophageal echocardiography (TEE), seeing laryngoscope, ultrasound-guided nerve block, etc., as well as new anesthesia visualization technologies such as vascular puncture positioning, etc. It has accumulated rich experience in emerging fields such as target control anesthesia, bispectral index (BIS) monitoring, intraoperative arousal anesthesia, etc.
At present, it is mainly responsible for clinical anesthesia, first-aid and resuscitation and postoperative pain diagnosis and treatment in many departments such as the Cardiovascular Surgery Department, the Thoracic Surgery Department, the Joint Surgery Department, the Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery Department, the Gynecology Department, the Obstetrics Department, the Stomatology Department, the Ophthalmology Department, the Peripheral Vascular Disease Department, etc. It provides emergency measures such as tracheal intubation for emergency patients and critically ill patients in the ward, and makes contributions to saving the lives of patients. The scope of work of the First Department of Anesthesiology covers the perioperative period and the peri-diagnosis and treatment period for outpatients and inpatients. It provides high-quality, safe and efficient general anesthesia, intraspinal anesthesia, nerve block anesthesia, and postoperative analgesia for all patients. It provides outpatients with painless induced abortion, painless curettage, painless hysteroscopy, painless bronchoscopy and other painless endoscopy services. It has significant advantages in anesthesia for difficult, critical, urgent, and severe patients. The First Department of Anesthesiology has a large number of advanced imported surgical and anesthesia equipment, such as a variety of multi-function anesthesia machines, multi-function ultrasonic machines, electrocardiogram monitors, anaesthetic depth monitors, cardiac output monitors, ETCO2 monitor, electrical defibrillator, micro-pump, target control system, BIS system, etc., which create an effective safety guarantee for the surgery.
Scientific Research Level
The First Department of Anesthesiology has strong scientific research strength and good scientific research conditions. It has undertaken nearly 10 national, provincial and ministerial research projects, and published more than 30 papers at home and abroad. It has obtained 8 provincial and ministerial-level projects. Among them, “Research on the Possible Mechanism of Ventilator-induced Lung Injuries Aggravated by Transtracheal Endotoxin Instillation of Micro-amount” won the third prize of the “Shandong Natural Science Award” in 2007, and “Serial Research Papers of Ventilator-induced Lung Injuries Aggravated by Endotoxin” won the third prize of the “Excellent Scientific Research Achievements of Colleges and Universities in Shandong Province” Award. Three other projects have passed provincial appraisal, of which one project has reached the international leading level, and two projects has reached the international advanced level. In 2003, the “Imaging Positioning of Tracheal Intubation” and “Application of Dual Channel Puncture Technique in Critically Ill Patients” won two national patents.
Academic Exchange and Cooperation
The First Department of Anesthesiology has successively sent 7 experts to top domestic hospitals in Beijing, Shanghai, Chengdu and other cities for further study. It has hosted and participated in domestic professional academic conferences for many times, and delivered conference addresses.
It has invited many experts from Shanghai, Beijing, Wuhan and other cities to our hospital for academic exchanges. Through such activities, we established good cooperative relations with them, and promoted academic development.
The First Department of Anesthesiology is a designated department for the standardized training of residents, and it has successively provided formal and professional clinical training and scientific research training for 30 residents. The First Department of Anesthesiology enrolls about 20 advanced students and 8 interns every year, and regularly holds the provincial continuing education courses for anesthesia and national medical continuing education courses. In order to cooperate with the development of teaching, scientific research and continuing education projects of various disciplines, it has installed a direct observation system for surgery.
Under the leadership of leaders at all levels of our hospital, Director Pan Enmu puts forward the “Family-style Management Concept”, so as to create a harmonious and warm atmosphere and enhance the cohesion of the department. The work of The First Department of Anesthesiology is developing rapidly and healthily. It strives to develop and improve the department management system, enhance the level of professional skills, and achieve the department management goals of standardization, normalization, and professionalization. Relying on national, provincial and ministerial-level scientific research projects, it works hard to improve its scientific research level and discipline position, so as to make the Anesthesiology Department become a key discipline in the Second Hospital of Shandong University with all its clinical, teaching, and scientific research works advance side by side, and finally build the Anesthesiology Department into a leading discipline of our hospital to promote “comfortable medical services” and a critical discipline to ensure medical safety.