Neonatology

The Department of Neonatology of Tianjin Children's Hospital has two departments: Longyan Department of Neonatology and Machang Department of Neonatology: Longyan Department of Neonatology: The Department of Neonatology of Tianjin Children's Hospital was founded in 1960. It is the earliest specialized neonatal ward established in my country and is the critical neonatal treatment center in Tianjin. It mainly treats newborns within 28 days after birth, premature infants, and infants less than 3 months old or weighing less than 6kg.

Professional scope: Neonatal internal medicine covers all diseases, and is especially good at treating difficult, difficult, dangerous and serious diseases of newborns and premature infants.

It has launched services in the areas of neonatal transport, prenatal consultation, and perioperative management based on the mobile NICU.

Specialty team: There are 67 doctors and nurses in the neonatology department, 30 neonatologists, and 37 nurses, including 4 chief physicians, 2 deputy chief physicians, 5 attending physicians, 19 specialist residents, and 29 people with master's degree or above.

Clinical services: Currently, the neonatology department has 99 open beds, including intensive care units (NICU), general wards and isolation wards, including 20 critical care units, and treats more than 3,000 neonatal cases of various types every year.

The neonatology department is well-equipped and has rich clinical experience in various respiratory management, enteral and enteral nutritional support, peripheral arterial and venous synchronized exchange transfusion, neonatal asphyxia resuscitation, mild hypothermia treatment, perioperative management, critical neonatal transport and other advanced treatment technologies. It can provide diagnosis and treatment services for common neonatal diseases, frequently-occurring diseases, difficult critical illness and rare diseases, as well as neonatal perioperative management.

In recent years, the department has made full use of the advantages of our hospital’s full coverage of pediatrics, and cooperated with neonatal surgery, maxillofacial surgery, neurosurgery, cardiac surgery, thoracic surgery, orthopedics, hepatobiliary surgery, urology, burns department, otolaryngology, dermatology, rehabilitation, nutrition, pediatrics, etc. The Institute of Science and Technology and other departments work together to establish a multidisciplinary diagnosis and treatment platform, continuously improve comprehensive management capabilities, and have accumulated rich clinical experience in comprehensive perinatal management of severe pneumonia, Pirrot sequence syndrome, intrauterine dysplasia, and crisis treatment of genetic metabolic diseases.

The department is responsible for the referral and treatment of critically ill newborns in our city's jurisdiction and surrounding areas. It has established a sequential management system for pre-hospital referral of newborns, multi-disciplinary diagnosis and treatment in the hospital, and follow-up outside the hospital. It has smooth green channels and provides a full range of professional medical services for newborns.

Scientific research: The department actively carries out clinical and basic research on neonatal medicine.

Research on water and electrolyte metabolism in newborns and "Pediatric Humoral Therapy" were awarded by the Ministry of Health and won the National Medical and Health Science Conference Award. Its research results were domestically leading at the time and were at an international level.

The research and intervention on intrinsic risk factors of neonatal iatrogenic hyperglycemia and the research on neonatal critical illness with SIADH both won the third prize of bureau-level scientific and technological progress.

Research on neonatal hyperbilirubinemia, hemolysis and exchange transfusion therapy, and NIPPV treatment of neonatal respiratory failure technology have filled a gap in Tianjin.

In addition, a series of studies on neonatal infectious diseases and birth defects have been carried out.

Up to now, the department is researching 1 Tianjin Natural Science Foundation project and 6 municipal bureau-level projects. One person has been selected as one of the 100 young medical talents in the Tianjin Health and Family Planning Industry High-level Talent Selection Project, and 2 people have been selected into the Tianjin Children’s Hospital Talent Training Plan.

Teaching and talent training: The department currently has 1 master's degree tutor.

Relying on the hospital as a national-level pediatric residential training base, it undertakes the training and assessment tasks of neonatal specialty for pediatric resident training doctors.

Relying on the hospital as the Affiliated Hospital of Tianjin University, the Children's Clinical School of Tianjin Medical University, and the Pediatric Clinical School of Nankai University School of Medicine, the department is responsible for the theoretical teaching of neonatology for undergraduates and master's students, as well as clinical internship and internship teaching.

At the same time, it is responsible for the neonatal professional training and assessment work for training doctors and clinical pediatric transfer doctors of the Municipal Health Commission.

Over the years, the medical staff of the department have gone to Xinjiang, Gannan, northern Shaanxi and other regions to provide professional neonatal medical assistance and support.

Academic development: The department has successively served as subject leaders and held important positions in relevant societies across the country and Tianjin.

Currently, he serves as the youth committee member of the Pediatric Branch of the Chinese Medical Association, the Perinatal Medicine Branch of the Chinese Medical Association, the Neonatologist Branch of the Chinese Medical Doctor Association, the deputy leader of the Neonatology Group of the Pediatric Branch of the Tianjin Medical Association, the Youth Group of the Pediatric Branch of the Tianjin Medical Association, the Neonatal Congenital Heart Disease Branch of the Tianjin Medical Association, the Rare Disease Branch of the Tianjin Medical Association, the Preterm Infant Branch of the Tianjin Medical Association, and the Pediatric Quality Control Center and Perinatal Quality Control Center of the Tianjin Health Commission.

Outpatient consultation time: every Monday to Saturday morning. Department of Neonatology at Machang: The Neonatology Department of Tianjin Children's Hospital was established in 1960. It is one of the earliest specialized neonatal wards established in my country and is one of the key disciplines of the hospital.

On September 30, 2019, the Machang hospital in Hexi District was renovated and opened for medical consultation. The Machang Department of Neonatology is an important part of the neonatal diagnosis and treatment center of our hospital. It is also the critical neonatal treatment center in our city. It took the lead in building the critical neonatal transport system of our hospital.

Our department has a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) and a parent-child care area, with a total of 51 open beds. It provides diagnosis and treatment for newborns, premature infants, and babies less than 3 months old or weighing less than 6kg. It also operates a neonatal specialist clinic and a neonatal follow-up clinic.

The Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) is dedicated to the treatment of critically ill, premature infants, difficult cases, genetic metabolic diseases, perioperative management and other critical and critical patients.

The department has various specialized neonatal technologies, including neonatal critical care transport systems (equipped with transport incubators and transport ventilators), various advanced neonatal life support technologies (ventilator-assisted ventilation, PICC, total intravenous nutrition, etc.), fully automatic peripheral arterial and venous blood transfusion technology, neonatal asphyxia resuscitation technology, neonatal mild hypothermia treatment technology, bedside EEG monitoring, neonatal clinical nutrition support technology, bronchoscopy technology, peritoneal dialysis technology, etc., and actively carries out neonatal medical research.

The fully automatic peripheral arterial and venous synchronized exchange transfusion technology for neonatal hyperbilirubinemia and the amplitude integrated electroencephalogram monitoring technology have filled the gap in Tianjin.

The NICU ward cooperates with multiple departments of our hospital on multidisciplinary diagnosis and treatment (MDT), responsible for the referral and treatment of newborns with critical, difficult and rare diseases in Tianjin and surrounding areas, and provides high-quality diagnosis and treatment services to children.

The parent-child area opened on April 29, 2022, and introduced a family participatory care diagnosis and treatment model. Parents can accompany their sick babies 24 hours a day and personally participate in their babies' daily care.

This ward is also the first neonatal care ward in Tianjin. All are set up as single special-needs wards. Our medical staff will provide parents with professional guidance and help, and set up special lectures to provide parents with professional medical knowledge and nursing guidance, so that parents can master the correct newborn care methods to help their babies recover as soon as possible.

In the parent-child area, the company of parents is conducive to the recovery of the baby's illness, and at the same time relieves the mother's separation anxiety, facilitates breastfeeding, enhances the parent-child feeling, and promotes the baby's physical and brain development.

The parent-child area ward is scientifically designed, warm and comfortable, with complete supporting equipment. The ward adopts a model that combines medical management with humanized management to create the most comfortable medical environment for newborns. It has been personally inspected and valued by the leaders of the municipal party committee.

As the birthplace of the Neonatology Department of Tianjin Children's Hospital, the topics "Research on Water and Electrolyte Metabolism of Newborns" and "Pediatric Fluid Therapy" have won awards from the Ministry of Health and the National Medical and Health Science Conference Award.

The research and intervention on intrinsic risk factors of neonatal iatrogenic hyperglycemia and the research on neonatal critical illness with SIADH both won the third prize of bureau-level scientific and technological progress.

Successive subject leaders have held important positions in relevant societies across the country and in Tianjin.

Currently, the director of the department serves as a standing committee member of the Neonatal Professional Committee of the Cross-Strait Medical and Health Exchange Association;

Executive deputy director of the Cross-Strait Neonatal Medicine and Research (North China) Base;

Vice Chairman of the Clinical Nutrition Branch of Tianjin Medical Association;

Member of the Neonatal Branch and Critical Care Medicine Branch of Tianjin Medical Doctors Association;

Member of the Children’s Rehabilitation Committee of Tianjin Medical Association;

Member of the Pediatric Professional Committee of Tianjin Society of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine;

Member of the Maternity and Infant Professional Committee of Tianjin Health Management Association;

Member of Tianjin Perinatal Medicine Quality Control Center;

Executive director of Tianjin Medical Ethics Society, etc.

Our department currently has 48 neonatal specialist nurses, including 5 with senior professional titles, 21 with intermediate professional titles or above, and 9 with master's degree or above.

The department is responsible for medical assistance and support tasks in Xinjiang, Gansu, and northern Shaanxi, and assists local hospitals in completing the construction of neonatology departments and specialized diagnosis and treatment, while training specialist doctors and establishing telemedicine;

Responsible for the training and assessment of neonatal specialties for advanced doctors and national resident doctors;

A number of key physicians from the department have been dispatched to the country's top medical and health institutions for further studies.

As the neonatal medicine research and training (North China) base of the Maritime Medical Association, several professional academic lectures and classes are held every year.

The Department of Neonatology at Machang is a key hospital department that integrates neonatal intensive care, neonatal parent-child care, neonatal transport system, post-discharge follow-up and rehabilitation guidance.

The department has a group of high-quality medical staff with rich clinical experience, leading professional knowledge and excellent nursing skills.

Its medical team is a medical professional team with high medical ethics, superb medical skills, and unity and progress. Adhering to the service tenet of "all for the children", it serves children in the city, radiates to North China, and protects the life and health of early infants.

Neonatal specialist clinic hours: every Monday to Saturday morning. Neonatal follow-up clinic hours: every Monday to Saturday morning.