What kind of department is the "popular science" pathology department?

Despite the rapid development of modern medicine, with each passing day. But when it comes to pathology, most people are still very vague about this important department of the hospital. Some people think that the pathology department is engaged in academic research, some people think that the pathology department is responsible for the management of patients' medical records, and some even think that the pathology department is engaged in laboratory tests, confusing the pathology department with the laboratory department. In fact, whether at home or abroad, pathology has always been one of the indispensable departments in large general hospitals. Domestic second-class hospitals need to set up pathology departments, otherwise they cannot pass the evaluation; Western countries attach great importance to the construction of hospital pathology and the role of pathologists, and have formulated strict admission standards for pathologists and pathologists. Pathology quality control has been standardized and programmed, which ensures the stability and development of pathology industry.

Position in the hospital system

All medical activities in the hospital are patient-centered. Any doctor faces patients with two central problems-diagnosis and treatment, and pathology plays an important role in diagnosis and treatment, so the role of pathology in the hospital system can be imagined.

The main task of hospital pathology department is to complete the diagnosis of outpatient biopsy specimens and surgical resection specimens, and its scope involves most of the diagnosis of all clinical departments. Pathological diagnosis is the final diagnosis of many difficult cases in clinic, so it is also called "gold standard". The accuracy of pathological diagnosis also has a great influence on the clinical diagnosis level of clinicians. The difference between pathological diagnosis and clinical diagnosis will inevitably correct the diagnosis of clinicians. If the pathological diagnosis is incorrect, it will inevitably mislead the clinical diagnosis. Therefore, correct pathological diagnosis can promote the continuous improvement of the diagnostic level of clinicians.

On the surface, it seems that the pathology department has little to do with the treatment level of the hospital, but it is not. With the improvement of pathological equipment and quick-frozen specimen making technology, rapid surgical pathology is becoming more and more common, and the correct and appropriate surgical treatment is based on tangent pathological diagnosis. The mistake of rapid pathology will not only make any advanced treatment meaningless, but also bring irreparable trauma to patients, cause medical disputes and bring serious adverse effects to hospitals.

The work of pathology department

The work of pathology department includes biopsy, exfoliative cytology, intraoperative frozen section examination, immunohistochemical examination and molecular pathology examination. Through these examinations, we can judge the nature of the disease, whether it is inflammation or tumor, what kind of tissue, what kind of inflammation, whether it is benign or malignant, the malignant degree of tumor, whether there is tumor metastasis, etc.

Biopsy refers to biopsy, such as puncture biopsy, gastroscopy biopsy, colonoscopy biopsy, surgical specimens, etc. This is the main work of the Department of Pathology. When the specimen is sent to the pathology department, the pathologist will make the sent specimen into a wax block with the size of 2×2cm through the processes of taking materials, fixing and embedding, which is convenient for preservation and future management.