The Neonatal Dept of our hospital is a Characteristic Specialty of Neonatal Healthcare in Guangdong Province, a Neonatal Critical Care Center of Shenzhen and Bao’an District, and a Key Medical Specialty of Bao’an District.The department currently has 4 inpatient wards with 163 beds available.
Dr. Zhang Lian, Academic Leader, holds a master’s degree from Tongji Medical College of Huazhong University of Science and Technology and a doctoral degree from Epilepsy Hospital, University of Bonn, Germany. Serving as a doctoral supervisor of Jinan University, Dr. Zhang Lian once held the position of Department Director of Neonatology at Guangzhou Women and Children’s Medical Center, and was recruited as a high-level healthcare talent by Bao’an District Government, Shenzhen in 2017.
The department has a total of 152 medical and nursing staff, with about 10,000 annual inpatient discharges and around 54,000 annual outpatient visits. It successfully rescues and treats various complicated and critically ill neonates with conditions such as persistent pulmonary hypertension, severe asphyxia, multiple organ failure and severe shock.About 150 very low birth weight preterm infants are discharged annually. Extremely low birth weight preterm infants with a minimum birth weight of 530 grams have been successfully treated with favorable prognosis. The cure rate of critical neonatal illnesses remains among the highest in Shenzhen.
In collaboration with Neonatal Surgery and Pediatric Cardiac Surgery, the department provides standardized perioperative management for surgical treatment of complex congenital heart disease, congenital digestive and urinary tract malformations, and neonatal digestive system diseases, with 62 such cases completed in 2020.
The department joined the globally renowned Vermont Oxford Neonatal Network in 2019. It has launched a number of new technologies at national, provincial and municipal levels, including continuous renal replacement therapy for preterm infants, neonatal fiberoptic bronchoscopy, neonatal NAVA mechanical ventilation, and bovine colostrum micro-feeding for preterm infants.
The Neonatal Dept has set up the first public welfare breast milk bank in Shenzhen. It has participated in formulating the nation’s first Standard Operating Procedures for Breast Milk Banks initiated by the Chinese Nutrition Society, and compiled the procedural work standards published by People’s Medical Publishing House.
Specialty Features
Establishment of neonatal day ward and family-based care modelTo reduce mother-infant separation and improve ward operational efficiency, the hospital adopts a humanized management mode based on professional assessment of neonates and their families, so as to optimize the effective utilization of medical resources and innovate the construction of neonatal day ward.A family-centered nursing environment is provided during treatment. Under the guidance of nurses, families participate in partial neonatal nursing work, implementing an accompanied family ward model. This model meets the needs of newborns and their families, promotes healthy growth of neonates, improves family care ability, increases the breastfeeding rate, raises family satisfaction, and enhances the professional value of nursing staff.
The first breast milk bank in ShenzhenThe annual number of preterm infants and low birth weight infants in Shenzhen keeps increasing year by year. Statistics show that only 27% of preterm and low birth weight infants can be fully fed with their own mother’s milk, making the feeding problem of this group increasingly prominent.
Therefore, our hospital established the first breast milk bank in Shenzhen at the end of 2015. As the only public welfare breast milk bank in Shenzhen, it mainly undertakes the selection, collection, disinfection, testing, transportation, storage and distribution of breast milk for preterm infants with special medical needs.The establishment and effective operation of the breast milk bank can supply safe and high-quality human milk for preterm and low birth weight infants, improve their prognosis and promote growth and development, acting as an important medical measure to protect neonatal health.