“This young child’s ovarian cyst is 10cm in size and almost fills the entire abdominal cavity. We performed a minimally invasive surgery through a single hidden incision in the umbilicus under laparoscopic guidance. A puncture is performed to extract the fluid from the cyst, and then the cyst is completely peeled off. The postoperative recovery is smooth, and the wound on the umbilicus is close to no trace.” In September, in Dongguan Children’s Hospital, Qu Zhibo, MD, deputy director of pediatric surgery, was born. A 7-day-old baby girl weighing 2.2kg was cured of a huge ovarian cyst brought out of her mother’s womb.
As a newly introduced doctor in pediatric surgery, Qu Zhibo has only worked in Dongguan for more than half a year. Under the leadership of Director Ma, he has already carried out laparoscopic minimally invasive surgery, pediatric functional constipation, etc. A number of characteristic treatments are exploring the implementation of new technologies. Today, he devotes himself to the work of the department, and together with the team, he has built the hospital’s pediatric surgery into a provincial-level key specialty in Guangdong Province, and strives towards a regional center of pediatric surgery that radiates all of Dongguan and faces the Greater Bay Area.
Minimally invasive surgery protects children’s health
With the development of prenatal and postnatal ultrasound, more and more neonatal or fetal ovarian cysts are found. This tiny cyst is like a “ticking time bomb” that brings anxiety and anxiety to young parents who are new parents.
Since this year, the Pediatric Surgery Department of Dongguan Children’s Hospital has received many cases of children with ovarian cysts. Through scientific diagnosis and exploration of new technologies, minimally invasive and near-scarless operations have made the unfortunate family smiles again.
In the corner of the pediatric surgery ward, Xiao Yang (pseudonym), over 4 years old, is recovering. Previously, he repeatedly suffered from biliary vomiting, and the cause was not found in many hospitals. This time, he got sick again and was accompanied by severe abdominal pain. He came to Dongguan Children’s Hospital and was found to be caused by malrotation of the intestine and accompanied by volvulus of the midgut. Before Director Ma came to Dongguan, this disease required abdominal surgery, and the recovery time would be very long. Now, the pediatric surgeon of the Children’s Hospital has solved the problem perfectly through laparoscopic minimally invasive surgery, reducing the damage to the body, and Xiao Yang has recovered quickly. In Children’s Hospital, thoracic and abdominal surgery can basically be cured by minimally invasive procedures.
Qu Zhibo is one of the explorers of these new technologies. At the end of 2021, he came to work in Dongguan Children’s Hospital, further strengthening the minimally invasive laparoscopic surgery for children and the characteristic treatment of children with functional constipation, bringing good news to many children.
“I don’t want to be idle, I especially hope to be able to do something!” From Harbin, Heilongjiang and Zhenjiang, Jiangsu to Dongguan, Qu Zhibo circled the country “mostly”. As a high-level medical talent, although he is still young, he has edited 1 book and published a total of 40 academic papers, including 5 SCI-indexed papers and 16 national-level papers as the first author. More than 20 new technology awards.
In Dongguan, Qu Zhibo felt that he was in the right place. As a city with a population of 10 million, Dongguan has a young population structure, and children’s health work has attracted much attention. “The department faces many patients every day, with many and complex diseases. Being a doctor here will give you the motivation to explore tirelessly.”
Improve the city’s children’s surgical treatment level in an all-round way
Under the leadership of Professor Ma, Qu Zhibo, as the first doctor introduced in pediatric surgery, relieved the pain of many children and won a good reputation. Many patients in Dongguan and surrounding areas are attracted come.
“As a doctor, you must have a spirit of exploration and benevolence.” Ma Ma, the director of pediatric surgery, is from Henan, and the two doctors have similar experiences – growing up in the north, because of career choices Come to Dongguan and become the busiest doctor on the front line. Engaged in pediatric surgery clinical, teaching and scientific research for 32 years, Ma Ma leads the only pediatric surgery professional team in Dongguan that integrates clinical, teaching and scientific research, solves many intractable diseases, and carefully guards the health of children in Lingnan area. .
Now, Ma Ma and Qu Zhibo are working together to carry out cutting-edge and difficult operations such as portal cavernous degeneration surgery in the department, providing high-level medical care for children with rare diseases, difficult diseases and critical illnesses. Surgical medical services.
Through the introduction of high-level talents and the enrichment of academic and technical strength, the Pediatric Surgery Department of Dongguan Children’s Hospital has made great progress in recent years. The department not only has the most complete pediatric surgery department in the city, but also can carry out a variety of complex and difficult four-level surgeries, build a multi-disciplinary collaborative diagnosis and treatment platform, and can carry out children’s minimally invasive surgery, children’s constipation, children’s chest deformity and children’s vascular deformity and other characteristics It also leads the development of new technologies and new projects and restricted technologies for the treatment of children’s special diseases, and strives to become a “Children’s Surgery Center with comprehensive strength and radiation in the Greater Bay Area”.
More good news to come. The reporter learned that the department is creating provincial key specialties to comprehensively improve the city’s children’s surgical treatment level. In the future, the department will also establish medical alliances with various towns and streets in the city and its surrounding areas, continuously strengthen cooperation and liaison with leading domestic hospitals, create a pediatric surgery training base, and wholeheartedly protect the health of children in Guanyi.
[Reporter] Ou Yaqin
[Author] Ou Yaqin
Healthy Dongguan