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Profile of Nagoya University Hospital 2012

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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.

Medical Care System

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.

Target Disease

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.

Features

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.

Clinical Results

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.

Other Undertakings

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.

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