International Vascular Access Experts Visit Sir Run Run Shaw Hospital's Grand Canal Campus

The Dialysis Access Synergy 2026, initiated and hosted by the International Society of Dialysis Access (SoDAS) and co-organized by Sir Run Run Shaw Hospital affiliated with Zhejiang University School of Medicine (SRRSH), and the Zhejiang Society for Mathematical Medicine, was held in Hangzhou recently. The conference brought together 113 experts, scholars and industry representatives from 14 countries and regions. Views were exchanged on cutting-edge vascular access technologies, clinical practice innovations and full-process quality management through keynote lectures, international surgical demonstrations, nursing workshops and case competitions.

Following the conference, more than ten experts from Brazil, Singapore, the United States, Indonesia and China’s Taiwan region visited the Grand Canal Campus. They toured the operating rooms, hemodialysis unit and patient wards, gaining firsthand insight into the campus’s practices in vascular access diagnosis and treatment, smart dialysis, nursing techniques and full-process patient management.

In the operating rooms, Dr. Lu Mingxi, senior consultant of the Department of Nephrology, introduced the spatial layout, operational workflows and related facilities. Experts engaged in in-depth exchanges with operating room staff on the organization of vascular access surgery, physician-nurse collaboration, and quality and safety management, offering new perspectives for further optimizing diagnosis and treatment processes.

The delegation then proceeded to the hemodialysis unit. Head Nurse Wu Chunyan, Head Nurse Zhou Xin and Dr. Chen Haolu introduced the unit’s operational management and information technology development, with a particular focus on the hemodialysis synchronization system. This system continuously monitors key indicators such as patient blood pressure and vascular access flow during dialysis and uploads data in real time. Medical staff can also instantly retrieve patients’ electronic medical records to access prior diagnostic information and current dialysis status, providing data support for risk identification, clinical judgment and timely intervention. The nursing team also presented the key techniques and nursing practices of buttonhole cannulation, sharing experience in puncture pathway management, procedural standards and long-term access maintenance.

During the ward tour, Dr. Zhu Cheng, consultant of the Department of Nephrology, Head Nurse Chen Fangfang and Dr. Bai Linnan held thorough discussions with the visiting experts. The two sides shared frontline practical experience on topics including daily ward operational workflows, individualized diagnosis and treatment pathways for chronic kidney disease patients, physician-nurse collaborative nursing mechanisms, and full-cycle management of vascular access for long-term hemodialysis patients.

This visit not only gave foreign experts a close-up view of the Grand Canal Campus’s practices in vascular access diagnosis and treatment, smart dialysis and clinical nursing, but also provided a valuable opportunity for the Department of Nephrology team to engage in deeper exchanges with international peers.