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Surgical Intensive Care Unit |
Director KAINUMA, Motoshi (Clinical Professor) |
Providing the world's highest standard of medical services in a completely closed ICU system |
The department provides multimodality and cross-sectional Systematic control and medical care services to all patients with severe diseases from a diagnostic, therapeutic and nursing aspect. |
Our ICU has a completely closed system, in which doctors are exclusively stationed in the ICU for 24 hours where they hold conferences in the morning and the evening, and provide medical care around-the-clock in cooperation with specialized clinical departments. The nursing staffing ratio is one to two nursing per patient.
The department implements systemic controls, such as artificial respiration control, circulatory management, infection control, and nutrition management; after highly invasive cardiac surgery, great vessel surgery, abdominal surgery, and any other major surgical operations; or for patients with multi-organ disorders and severe infections.
Among hospitals affiliated with national university medical schools, a completely closed ICU system is rare, and we achieve the highest level of medical care. Doctors and nurses work to improve safety management and service quality and promote advanced medicine.
We had 1,098 patients in fiscal year 2011. Based on the increasing need for ICU care, the number of beds was increased from 10 to 16 in 2009. We accept severely-ill surgical outpatients and inpatients.
The department aims to provide medical services compliant with world standards. By introducing Evidence-Based Medicine (EBM), we eliminate ad hoc medical services. In addition, working closely with the Medical and Emergency Intensive Care Unit, we are developing therapies for refractory diseases as a university hospital ICU.