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Department of Surgical Center |
Director ANDO, Hisami (Professor) |
We provide high-level and advanced surgical medicine while ensuring safety |
In a comfortable environment, we provide high-level and advanced surgical medicine required for university hospitals while ensuring utmost safety. |
We have enough staff members to perform 11 or more surgeries under general anesthesia and several surgeries under local anesthesia simultaneously almost all the time from 8:30 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. five days a week. Furthermore, we are always ready to provide medical care for emergency surgery at night or on holidays as well. Our staff members consist of four academic personnel of the Department of Surgical Center, 26 academic personnel of Anesthesiology, 60 nurses, four nurses' aides, and other outsourced staff, etc.
We perform almost all types of surgery, except for some special types of surgery such as heart transplantation. In addition to performing high-level and advanced surgeries, which are characteristics of university hospitals, we recently perform an increasing number of surgeries for more common conditions, meeting the needs of the community.
Our department is equipped with a facility where MRI can be performed for the detection of remnant tumor during surgery, a facility with which radiation can be administered in the operating room during surgery, and so forth. In addition, our department is equipped with multiple operating rooms where various endoscopic surgeries, which have been increasing recently, can be performed.
The number of surgeries has been increasing yearly; we performed about 7,550 surgeries in fiscal year 2010 and 7,750 in fiscal year 2011.
The facilities for intraoperative MRI scan and intraoperative radiation are in excellent operating condition. The endoscopic surgery assisting robot "da Vinci" was introduced in March 2010. In May 2010, surgery was performed for the first patient using the "da Vinci."