"Tumor Screening Tool" Enters District Hospitals: Huashan Fifth Hospital Minhang Medical Union PET/CT Center for Medical Use | PET/CT | Hospital
In order to provide convenient and high-quality medical services for residents of Minhang District at their doorstep, comprehensively enhance the hospital's overall competitiveness, and achieve the vision of being a leader in regional medical centers, Shanghai Fifth People's Hospital recently completed the introduction and trial operation of the first PET/CT equipment in Minhang District affiliated medical institutions. The Huashan Fifth Hospital Minhang Medical Union PET/CT Center has officially opened and put into clinical use.
It is understood that PET/CT is known as the "crown of modern medical high-tech", which integrates PET and CT. PET provides molecular information such as lesion function and metabolism, while CT provides precise anatomical localization of lesions. Patients only need one examination to simultaneously obtain dual information on changes in body function, metabolism, and anatomical morphology. By combining the advantages of two imaging techniques, a diagnosis and treatment effect of "1+1>2" can be achieved. As the only tertiary hospital in Minhang District with a nuclear medicine discipline, the PET/CT introduced this time not only has a large aperture of 78 centimeters, but also achieves laboratory level 214ps time resolution and submillimeter ultra large matrix. It has advantages such as high sensitivity, high spatial resolution, fast image reconstruction speed, low radiation dose, and wide application range. While better meeting clinical and scientific research needs, it provides patients with more accurate, fast, comfortable, and safe medical imaging services.
PET/CT has a wide range of clinical applications. In tumor related diseases, PET/CT is commonly used for distinguishing between benign and malignant tumors, clinical staging, guiding the development of treatment plans, evaluating tumor recurrence, metastasis, and efficacy. In addition, in cardiovascular diseases, PET/CT myocardial metabolic imaging is not only the "gold standard" for judging viable myocardium, but also applied in cutting-edge fields such as evaluating cardiac synchrony in arrhythmias; In neurological diseases, PET/CT is also used for qualitative, localized diagnosis, and functional monitoring of various brain diseases. In addition, PET/CT can also be used in the examination of specific people. With the change of lifestyle and work pressure, degenerative diseases are becoming younger and the incidence rate of tumors continues to rise. PET/CT examination of people with a family history of tumors, long-term abnormalities of tumor markers, chronic disease history, long-term bad living habits, and sub healthy people can find the lesions in the bud early, so as to achieve the goal of early detection, early treatment, and early recovery.
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Since the establishment of the Huashan Fifth Hospital Minhang Medical Association in 2016, high-quality resources such as subject experts and medical equipment from tertiary hospitals in the urban area have been continuously introduced into regional medical centers, and have been integrated into various community health service centers. The PET/CT center has hired a team of directors from the Department of Nuclear Medicine and PET Center of Huashan Hospital affiliated with Fudan University to provide guidance and diagnosis, focusing on the construction of a close knit urban medical group in Minhang and the goal of high-quality development of the hospital, to safeguard the construction of patient health management throughout the entire process. At present, the six communities within the Southern Science and Technology Innovation Center's tightly integrated urban medical group rely on the bi-directional referral platform of the medical consortium, allowing patients to make appointments and pay within the community. The next step is for the medical consortium's two-way referral platform to gradually cover all 14 communities in the area, achieving one-stop services. At the same time, the Nuclear Medicine Department plans to visit 14 communities to provide targeted training for family doctors and team leaders, and establish long-term communication channels to provide point-to-point consultation and clarification on relevant business issues.
Lv Feizhou, Vice President of Huashan Hospital and President of the Fifth Hospital of the city, mentioned that "as an essential examination method in precision medicine, PET/CT plays an increasingly important role in the accurate diagnosis of major diseases such as tumors. This time, we are the first hospital in the city to introduce Siemens' new PET/CT equipment, hoping to further implant a powerful 'booster' for high-quality development, drive the leapfrog development of related disciplines such as nuclear medicine and oncology medicine in the hospital, and provide a new platform for patients to obtain better medical services."