Pulmonology

The Department of Pulmonology of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital is a leading medical and health discipline in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, a key specialty with distinctive advantages of Mongolian and Traditional Chinese Medicine in the Autonomous Region, and a unit of the Inner Mongolia Grassroots Respiratory Disease Prevention and Treatment Alliance. The Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine Pulmonology is a first-level department of the autonomous region’s top-level traditional Chinese medicine hospital that integrates medical care, teaching, and scientific research. Responsible for the diagnosis, treatment and clinical treatment of common, frequently-occurring and critical diseases in the respiratory specialty of the hospital, as well as clinical scientific research in the lung disease specialty of traditional Chinese medicine, production internships and inter-class internships at the College of Traditional Chinese Medicine of Inner Mongolia Medical University and the colleges of traditional Chinese medicine inside and outside the region, and standardized training for residents of traditional Chinese medicine hospitals in the region. 1. Department structure The department currently has a pulmonary disease ward (51 beds), a pulmonary disease clinic and a pulmonary function examination room. The medical team currently has 27 medical staff and 11 doctors, including: 3 chief physicians, 4 deputy chief physicians, 4 attending physicians; 3 master's tutors, 2 with doctoral degrees, 7 with master's degrees; 2 specially appointed experts; 16 nursing staff, 1 deputy chief nurse, 3 supervisory nurses, 8 nurse practitioners, and 4 nurses. It accepts more than ten trainees every year.Recruiting 9 master's degree students, 1 instructor who is a famous TCM physician in the autonomous region, 1 disciple of Chao Enxiang, the master of traditional Chinese medicine, 3 academic heirs of national-level famous traditional Chinese medicine practitioners, and 4 academic heirs of famous traditional Chinese medicine practitioners in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. The professional and technical personnel include famous old Chinese medicine practitioners in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, master tutors, and inheritors of famous old Chinese medicine doctors in the Autonomous Region. Discipline leader Huang Yan serves as a standing committee member of the Pulmonary Disease Branch of the Chinese Society of Chinese Medicine, a standing committee member of the Respiratory Disease Professional Committee of the World Federation of Chinese Medicine Societies, an executive director of the Heat Disease Branch of the World Federation of Chinese Medicine Societies, a director of the Pulmonary Disease Society of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine of the Inner Mongolia Society of Chinese Medicine, a director of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region Chinese Medicine Society, a disciple of the master of traditional Chinese medicine Chao Enxiang, and an inheritor of a nationally renowned traditional Chinese medicine practitioner. 2. Professional features and scope of diagnosis and treatment: Integrated traditional Chinese and Western medicine for the treatment of COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease), bronchial asthma, pulmonary heart disease, chronic respiratory failure, pulmonary encephalopathy, acute upper respiratory tract infection, interstitial pulmonary fibrosis, infectious lung diseases, lung lesions of connective tissue diseases, pulmonary embolism, pneumothorax, lung tumors, silicosis, allergic alveolitis, acute pulmonary edema and other respiratory diseases.Professional features: Traditional Chinese medicine has distinctive characteristics. It uses traditional Chinese medicine therapy to carry out acupoint application therapy, acupoint catgut embedding technology, traditional Chinese medicine directional medicine therapy and other traditional Chinese medicine treatment methods to conduct pulmonary rehabilitation training and management for patients with chronic respiratory diseases. It is the first of its kind in Inner Mongolia. Our department follows the theory of "treating diseases in winter and treating them in summer", using the in-hospital preparation "Muxiang Xiaochuan Cream" for acupoint application treatment and oral administration of "Xiazhi Capsules" to treat chronic bronchitis, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, bronchial asthma, allergic asthma, rhinitis and other diseases, and has achieved remarkable results. A variety of in-hospital preparations developed by our department, such as "Yiqi Bufei Pingchuan Capsules" and "Zhenwu Tingli Sipi Yin Capsules", are widely used in clinical practice, with significant curative effects and good social effects. 3. Department equipment: pulmonary function tester, blood gas analyzer, non-invasive ventilator, bronchoscopy room, respiratory and sleep monitoring, limb-linked whole-body functional rehabilitation training device, Bairui compression nebulizer, extracorporeal vibration expectoration device, electric sputum suction device, variable frequency portable external diaphragm pacemaker, portable multi-parameter ECG monitor, medium frequency treatment device, electroacupuncture device, warm moxibustion treatment device, etc. 4. Scientific research topicsThe national-level diagnosis and treatment guideline "Traditional Chinese Medicine Clinical Diagnosis and Treatment Guidelines for Asthma Syndrome (COPD and Right Heart Failure)" published by the China Association of Traditional Chinese Medicine in 2019 is the first national-level diagnosis and treatment guideline in Inner Mongolia. At this stage, the national diagnosis and treatment guideline "Traditional Chinese Medicine Clinical Diagnosis and Treatment Guidelines for Asthma Syndrome (COPD and Right Heart Failure)" will be promoted and applied within the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. At the same time, the clinical implementation effect and applicability of the guideline will be re-evaluated to standardize the TCM diagnosis and treatment technology in Inner Mongolia (especially primary hospitals), improve the clinical efficacy of traditional Chinese medicine in the treatment of asthma syndrome (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and right heart failure), and provide important information for the next revision of the guideline. 5. Department phone number and location: Pulmonary Disease Outpatient Clinic: 6921056 Pulmonary Disease Ward: 6920097 Location: Outpatient Clinic, 1st Floor (Rooms 102, 103) Ward: 4th Floor, Inpatient Department