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ADVANCES IN NEONATAL SURGERY IN CHINA

Zheng Shan

Department of Surgery, Children’s Hospital, Fu Dan University

Neonatal surgery is a relatively young field explored in the past few decades. It has now grown to be mature profession in China. Most children’s hospitals and affiliated hospitals of state-renowned medical schools have now set up designated departments with specialized personnel for neonatal surgery. Diagnosis and treatment of surgical diseases in neonatal stage has been improved with the aid of modern technology such as CT, MAI and endoscopy etc. and stressing on the importance of perioperative care, respiratory management and use of parenteral nutrition. Morbidity and mortality rates have been further lowered with the collaboration of the Neonatal Intensive care Unit (NICU) in the recent years. We have called on the first National Neonatal surgery was also branched out from the Chinese Pediatric Surgery Journal in hope of assisting interaction of new developments in the filed. The above mentioned is a summary of the developments made in neonatal surgery in China.