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Department of Clinical Laboratory
Department of Medical Supplies
Department of Blood Transfusion Service
Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Department of Emergency and Critical Care Medicine
Emergency and Medical Intensive Care Unit
Department of Blood Purification
Center for Maternal - Neonatal Care
Center of National University Hospital for Infection Control
Center for Advanced Medicine and Clinical Research
Department of Clinical Oncology and Chemotherapy
Department of Clinical Engineering
Center for Postgraduate Clinical Training and Career Development
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| Department of Blood Purification |
| Director TSUBOI, Naotake (Lecturer) |
| Undertaking blood purification therapy that responds to the increasing demand |
| The department takes charge of the hospital's blood purification therapy in collaboration with the ICU. |
Medical Care System
There are 10 beds in the department. The department is open on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday for a morning and afternoon shift, and Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday for a morning shift, which are handled by doctors, clinical technicians and exclusive nurses. Various blood purification therapies such as PE, DFPP, L/G-CAP in addition to HD/HDF are also performed. The specialist nurses also give guidance to outpatients on peritoneal dialysis (CHPD).
Target Disease
Blood purification therapy is administered for diseases such as hemodialysis for patients with end-stage kidney disease, surgical perioperative dialysis of patients on maintenance hemodialysis, or acute kidney failure or hepatic failure due to medicine, an operation, auto immune disease or sepsis, inflammatory Crohn's disease, and diseases of the nervous system.
Features
Only our hospital performs highly-specialized and advanced medical services protocol for ICU, cardiac surgery, organ transplantation, marrow transplant, cancer chemotherapy for severe infections, multi-organ failure, cardiovascular system, as well as for malignant diseases and acute blood purification for severe multiple complications.
Clinical Results
Total number of cases: blood dialysis 2,300 sessions, plasma exchange 60 sessions, leukocyte reduction 180 sessions, and new dialysis patients totaled 50 (all numbers are approximate figures in 2011)
Other Undertakings
The department started Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday shifts in May 2009 to meet the increasing demand. In October 2009, the department was renamed Department of Blood Purification. The department actively undertakes research on devices, medicines, and equipment relating to the total blood purification therapy, as well as establishment of safe dialysis for acute patients.
