Spine Surgery

The Spine Surgery Department of Hohhot First Hospital was established in May 2010. Its business covers spine, trauma, joints, hands, feet and ankles and other specialties. It has 43 beds and an average annual bed utilization rate of 80%.

There are currently 25 medical staff in the department.

There are 12 doctors, 1 has a doctorate degree and 8 have master's degrees.

There are 4 chief physicians, 2 deputy chief physicians, 5 attending physicians and 1 resident physician.

There are 13 nursing staff, including 1 chief nurse, 1 supervisor nurse, 5 nurse practitioners and 6 nurses.

Spine Surgery has been rated as an advanced department many times. It is an important team in the autonomous region and Hohhot City for the comprehensive and standardized diagnosis and treatment of orthopedic surgery-related diseases. It is also a key department of the First Hospital of Hohhot City.

The number of outpatient and emergency visits per year is 11,300, the number of discharges per year is 877, the average length of stay is 14.2 days, the average number of surgeries per year is 359, the average annual business income is 8.1973 million yuan, and the cure and improvement rate is about 97.4%.

Medical features

1. Spine specialty: surgical treatment of cervical, thoracolumbar and spinal degeneration and trauma.

① Spinal degenerative diseases: Surgical treatment is provided for cervical spondylosis and cervical spinal cord injury (including various types of cervical spondylosis, cervical spinal stenosis, cervical ossification of the posterior longitudinal ligament, etc.), lumbar disc herniation, lumbar spinal stenosis, and lumbar spondylolisthesis/instability.

②Spinal fractures: posterior cervical spine internal fixation to treat atlantoaxial fractures and dislocations, and posterior thoracolumbar decompression and pedicle screw rod systems to treat thoracolumbar fractures.

③ Minimally invasive spine: transforaminal endoscopic treatment of lumbar disc herniation, various types of spinal stenosis and senile spinal degeneration.

④Small incision technique to treat lumbar disc herniation.

⑤Percutaneous vertebroplasty (PKP or PVP) to treat thoracolumbar osteoporotic compression fractures in the elderly.

⑥ Spinal deformity: modified Hastelloy rod technology to correct scoliosis, etc.

2. Joint and Trauma Specialty: For the treatment of injuries around limbs and joints, artificial total hip and total knee replacement surgeries can be performed to treat osteoarthritis.

The new theory of surgical treatment of fractures, which places equal emphasis on biomechanics and biology, has been introduced, and the technical level has reached the advanced level of the autonomous region.

①Use locking nail plates and reconstruction plates to treat various types of fractures.

②Use interlocking intramedullary nails to treat long bone shaft fractures of limbs.

③ Use minimally invasive techniques (MIPPO, LISS, PFNA) to treat periarticular fractures.

④ Use advanced minimally invasive approaches to treat complex pelvic fractures.

3. Hands, feet, and ankles:

① Surgical treatment of injuries to blood vessels, nerves, and tendons of limbs, and fractures and dislocations of hands and feet.

②Replantation of severed fingers (toes) and skin flap repair to treat large-area skin defects.

③The first foot and ankle clinic in Hohhot was launched to accurately treat foot and ankle diseases such as foot deformities (hallux valgus, flatfoot) and foot and ankle trauma with the four-in-one concept of orthotics, braces, rehabilitation, and nursing.

Teaching and research

1. Teaching: Actively implement various teaching tasks and successfully complete the teaching of clinical interns in medical schools combining theory and practice.

Each year, about 160 interns are taught, and more than 50 theoretical and practical teaching classes are held.

2. In terms of scientific research: Completed 1 Inner Mongolia Natural Science Foundation project, 1 Inner Mongolia Talent Development Fund project, and 2 Hohhot Science and Technology Bureau projects.

Completed 2 papers included in SCI, 17 papers in core journals, and 20 papers at national, provincial and ministerial levels.

He has edited or co-edited 3 monographs and obtained 1 national patent.

Academic exchange

1. Actively carry out active exchanges, academic guidance, and remote diagnosis and treatment projects with well-known domestic and foreign experts.

2. Successfully held the Chinese Medical Association Youth Committee’s academic and free clinic charity event “Paying Attention to Grassroots Orthopedics Education – Caring for Grassroots People’s Health”.

3. Successfully held the 2019 Annual Meeting of the Traumatology and Orthopedics Professional Committee of the Inner Mongolia Medical Association and the 2019 Academic Annual Meeting of the Orthopedics Branch of the Hohhot Medical Association.

4. Successfully held the launching ceremony of the Foot and Ankle Clinic of Hohhot First Hospital and the 2018 Hohhot First Foot and Ankle Disease Summit Forum.

Department equipment

Transforaminal scope, microdynamic system.

Service concept

Patient first, careful care;

Rigorous and pragmatic, pioneering and innovative.