At the age of 92, Qiu Weiliu, academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and former president of Shanghai Ninth People's Hospital, passed away.
An outstanding member of the Communist Party of China, an outstanding medical scientist, educator, and scientist, one of the founders and pioneers of oral and maxillofacial surgery, head and neck tumor surgery, and oral and maxillofacial reconstructive surgery in China, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, and a member of the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences. Honorary director of the National Center for Oral Medicine and National Clinical Research Center for Oral Diseases, honorary president of the Chinese Stomatological Association, director of the International Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons, national advanced teacher, national advanced worker in the health system, Shanghai education hero, Shanghai Communications Comrade Qiu Weiliu, honorary chair professor of the university, former dean of the Ninth People's Hospital affiliated to Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, and former dean of the Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Stomatology, died at 16:08 on May 24, 2024 due to ineffective treatment. Died in Shanghai at the age of 92.
Qiu Weiliu has been engaged in oral and maxillofacial surgery for more than 50 years, and participated in the creation and development of Chinese-style oral and maxillofacial surgery. In June 1978, he successfully performed combined craniomaxillofacial resection on patients with advanced maxillofacial malignant tumors, opening up a promising cure for patients with advanced maxillofacial malignant tumors, and won the 1980 Major Achievement Award from the Ministry of Health. He also proposed the one-time full-body tunnel flap transfer for the first time at home and abroad and achieved success, reaching the international advanced level. He was the first to introduce microsurgery technology into the field of oral and maxillofacial surgery, making oral and maxillofacial surgery, maxillofacial plastic surgery and Microsurgery has been organically integrated and developed rapidly. In 1981, the discipline successfully established my country's first oral cancer model, the human tongue cancer cell line Tca8ll3, and then established my country's first adenoid cystic carcinoma cell line and lung highly metastatic cell line and other animal models, and It is widely used in experimental research on oral cancer and provides an excellent experimental model for physical and chemical factor treatment and biological treatment of clinical oral cancer. It has been included in my country's self-established cell lines. In the 1980s, he proposed arthroscopic subsynovial sclerotherapy to treat habitual dislocation of the temporomandibular joint and won the National Invention Award and was cited in foreign monographs. He has won 3 National Invention Awards and Science and Technology Progress Awards.
Qiu Weiliu often said that "the patient is the doctor's teacher". The progress of medicine requires both the clinical research of doctors and the contributions of patients. As a doctor, he has repeatedly used his body as an "experiment" and "living teaching material."
In the 1960s, Qiu Weiliu took the lead in establishing an oral and maxillofacial surgery acupuncture research group. The first question before him was, does acupuncture have analgesic effect? It happened that Qiu Weiliu had a soybean-sized lymph node in front of his left ear and needed maxillofacial surgery. He proposed to try different methods of acupuncture anesthesia during the operation to experience the patient's "gritting his teeth" and "forbearing". What does it feel like to endure ".
Some colleagues were afraid that he would "suffer", but he persuaded everyone with the allusion of "Shen Nong tasted a hundred herbs" and said that he would try Chinese herbal medicines like Li Shizhen. "If I want to know how to improve acupuncture surgery, I must experience it myself."
After the operation was completed in more than ten minutes, Qiu Weiliu recalled: "There was no pain during the skin incision. There was pain when the nerve endings were cut during separation, and there was no problem with suturing." Based on his own experience, Qiu Weiliu invented A set of "Deqi needle retention" method that does not require electrical stimulation, he also summarized a set of "flying knife method" based on the characteristics of oral and maxillofacial acupuncture anesthesia surgery. This set of "acupuncture anesthesia" methods helped the Ninth Hospital's rescue medical team overcome the difficulties of the first round of large-scale surgeries despite the lack of anesthetics during the 1976 Tangshan earthquake. In 1989, this scientific research achievement won the Science and Technology Progress Award from the State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine.
In Mr. Qiu's dictionary, the word "lying flat" does not exist at all. Two years ago, he said in an interview with the media, "Personally speaking, my biological age is 90 years old this year, and I still have to do my best in my future work and do what I can. Do what should be done and what can be done. Now I mainly retreat to the second and third lines, write books for future generations, teach them my experience, and teach young people my own life experience.”
“Science and technology have never had such a profound impact on the future and destiny of the country, and have never had such a profound impact on people’s lives and well-being as it does today.”
