Introduction

The Department of Infectious Diseases at Shanghai Sixth People's Hospital is a training base for Master's and Doctoral students of Shanghai Jiao Tong University, and is one of the six key centers for the diagnosis and treatment of infectious diseases in Shanghai.

It has established the Hepatology Research Laboratory of Shanghai Sixth People's Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai Jiao Tong University, which is a designated treatment center for hepatitis C in Xuhui District, Shanghai. It also serves as a branch of the Severe Hepatitis Research Laboratory of Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, a core unit of the Clinical Research Center for Infectious Diseases (Tuberculosis) in Shanghai, a standardized training base for resident physicians specializing in infectious diseases, an infectious disease specialist training base, and a pharmaceutical clinical trial base for infectious diseases.

At present, the Department of Infectious Diseases at Xuhui Campus is housed in a three-story independent building. The first floor accommodates hepatitis outpatient clinics, fever outpatient clinics, and gastrointestinal outpatient clinics. The second and third floors comprise the wards, with a total of 21 rooms and 65 beds. The third floor houses respiratory infection wards, while the second floor accommodates gastrointestinal and other infectious disease wards. Rooms can be arranged to accommodate 1, 2, 3, or 4 patients as needed. Each ward is equipped with independent bathrooms, showers, and mobile handwashing facilities. The department has 6 intensive care beds equipped with lifesaving facilities such as ventilators and remote monitoring equipment. Currently, the Department of Infectious Diseases at Lingang Campus only operates outpatient services and does not have inpatient wards.

Features

The discipline primarily focuses on the diagnosis and treatment of various infectious diseases, including various viral infections, acute and chronic hepatitis, severe hepatitis, hepatitis-related cirrhosis, hepatitis-related fatty liver, complicated and severe bloodstream infections, respiratory tract infections, gastrointestinal infections, central nervous system infections, difficult bone and joint infections, skin and soft tissue infections, various parasitic and atypical pathogen infections, as well as diseases such as unexplained fever.