Thoracic Surgery Dept of Shenzhen Bao'an District Songgang People's Hospital is a specialized clinical department integrating clinical practice, scientific research, teaching and rehabilitation. It boasts province-leading technologies and rich experience in the treatment of critical traumatic patients as well as the diagnosis and management of pulmonary nodules, lung cancer, esophageal cancer and bullae of lung.
Staffing
The department has 3 medical staff, including 1 Chief Physician, 1 Attending Physician and 1 Resident Physician.
Key Specialties
It provides individualized one-stop diagnosis and treatment for benign and malignant diseases of the lung, esophagus, trachea and mediastinum. The department carries out extensive multidisciplinary joint diagnosis for pulmonary nodules, has built a mature rescue system for severe thoracic trauma, and specializes in VATS minimally invasive techniques.
The department features five core specialized technologies:
1. Single-port thoracoscopic lobectomy, segmentectomy and subsegmentectomy;
2. Thoracoscopic mediastinal tumor resection;
3. Thoracoscopic esophagectomy;
4. Extended resection and vital organ function reconstruction for locally advanced lung cancer;
5. Rescue and functional reconstruction for complex thoracic trauma.
These services benefit patients from the hospital’s jurisdiction and surrounding areas.
Research & Teaching
The team has undertaken 1 municipal research project and 3 district-level research projects, and published 2 SCI papers. It participates in clinical teaching for medical students from multiple domestic medical universities.
Adhering to the service philosophy of "patient-centered, quality-oriented", the department combines advanced diagnosis and treatment technologies with humanistic care, and delivers individualized, standardized treatment to formulate the optimal surgical plan for each patient. Its surgical resection rate for common tumors such as lung and esophageal cancer, and rescue success rate for severe complex thoracic trauma rank at an advanced level locally.
Through systematic further training in thoracoscopic surgery for dispatched medical staff, the department has made remarkable progress in minimally invasive thoracic procedures. More than 1,000 single-port thoracoscopic minimally invasive operations have been completed, reaching provincial and municipal advanced standards, and comprehensive treatment of lung cancer has achieved favorable clinical outcomes.