The pain department of the First Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University was established in 1989. Thirty-five years ago, the anesthesiology department took the lead in opening pain clinics and wards in China. Through the tough work of four generations of medical staff, We have developed into the first batch of "Pain Comprehensive Management pilot units" of the National Health Commission, the "Pain Diagnosis and Treatment Special Ability Improvement Project (Chongqing) Training Base" of the National Health Commission Capacity Building and Continuing Education Center, the first batch of sentinel hospitals of the National Pain Medical Quality Control Center, and the first batch of "Cancer pain Standardized Treatment demonstration wards" of the former Ministry of Health. Chongqing Municipal Health Commission "Pain Treatment Center", "Women Civilized Post", Chongqing "pain specialist nurse training base", "Chongqing Pain Specialist Alliance" chairman unit, Chinese Medical Association pain branch and Chinese Medical Association pain doctors Branch Standing Committee unit, Chongqing Medical Association pain branch chairman unit, etc. We have won 12th place in the national nomination in the specialty reputation list of the first Pain Medicine "Fudan" ranking in 2022 and 2nd place in the reputation of pain science in Southwest China. In the first to third Nanjing Pain Department Index "China Pain Department Clinical Reputation Ranking" from 2020 to 2022, we ranked 19th, 23rd and 24th in the country, respectively.
After 35 years of development, the pain Department is now open to 25 beds, with 22 medical staff (included Rehelloring), including 3 seniors, 2 associate seniors, 3 master's supervisors, 3 doctors, 6 masters. We have advanced pain diagnosis and treatment devices such as radio frequency instruments, ozone instruments, cryo-plasma surgical systems, spinal endoscopic surgical systems, color ultrasound instruments, and quantitative sensory testing etc. We have developed a stepped, standardized and comprehensive chronic pain diagnosis and treatment system that focuses on the diagnosis and treatment of neuropathic pain, chronic musculoskeletal pain, cancer pain and other difficult and critical pain disorders, with nerve block and minimally invasive therapies at its core. Our department leads western China in numerous core technologies of minimally invasive interventional pain, such as PCA technology, ultrasound-guided precision nerve block/destruction technology, radiofrequency technology, cryo-plasma technology, microballoon compression surgery for trigeminal neuralgia, spinal cord electrical stimulation implantation neural regulation technology, Intrathecal drug infusion system implanted analgesic technique, and spinal endoscopic techniques. There are 17,000 outpatients and 1,000 inpatients annually. The rate of difficult and critical cases is more than 80 percent, and the medical quality is among the best in the hospital.
we have undertaken multi-specialty and multi-level student teaching and clinical practice teaching in Chongqing Medical University Since 2000, training more than 5,000 students of various types and training more than 10 graduate students in pain. We have also published numerous teaching papers and won the first, second and third prizes (collective) of "Teaching in School" and "Graduation Practice Teaching" of the First Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University many times, and the second prize for teaching achievements of Chongqing Medical University. Many teachers have won the titles of "Excellent Teacher", "Excellent Teaching and Educating Award" and "Student Favorite Teacher" numerous times. Sun Lin, Liu Maolin, Zuo Lei, Li Nan, Liang Xinjie and other young doctors have repeatedly won first, second and third prizes in national and provincial young doctors speech competitions. At the same time, we have successfully held more than 30 pain training courses and academic conferences, trained tens of thousands of medical personnel of all kinds, and become a training base for senior pain medicine personnel in Chongqing and western regions.
The department has published about 100 papers, 10 monographs, conducted more than ten research projects at all levels, and participated in the compilation of more than twenty books such as "Consensus of Chinese Experts on the Diagnosis and Treatment of Pain Diseases (Guidelines)", "Norms for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Pain Diseases in China" and "Training Course on Core Diagnosis and Treatment Techniques in China's Pain Department". We have participated in a number of national multi-center clinical research programs, obtained 8 nationwide patent, and won the Science and Technology Achievement Award from the Municipal Health Bureau. These results have made us one of the most influential pain specialties in western China. Two professors, Yang Xiaoqiu and Li Xiuying, have won the title of "the Most Beautiful Doctor" in the first and second sessions of the Pain Branch of the Chinese Women's Medical Association. Professor Yang Xiaoqiu won the fourth "National Famous Doctor-Outstanding Achievements", the first batch of national health technology promotion inheritance and application project inheritor, the First Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University "Learn great doctor Qian De" and other titles. Seven nurses, Yang Zhongying, Xu Liqiong, Li Qing, Tan Difang, Wei Xiaomei, Chen Shiyu, Wang Jin have been awarded the "Five hearts" quality nursing stars of the First Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University.
The pain department has been engaged in various forms of scientific knowledge publicity and education of pain diseases for more than 30 years. The department has been invited on several occasions to give special lectures on pain diagnosis and treatment on CCTV-2, CQTV-2, and other health programs, and has written and printed several editions of the Pain Science Manual and distributed tens of thousands of copies. For more than 20 years, he has promoted health appropriate technology in more than 30 districts and counties in Chongqing, guided and helped the pain department of district and county hospitals to carry out pain diagnosis and treatment, discipline construction and talent training, and effectively promoted the development of pain science in Chongqing. In addition, we also actively participated in the "Health China 10,000 miles" activity of the pain Committee of the Chinese Women's Medical Association, covering the central and western regions such as Cloud, Guizhou, Sichuan, Chongqing, Tibet, Hubei, etc., and was loved by the majority of grass roots medical staff and patients and won wide praise