Profile of Nagoya University Hospital 2012

• Idea/Basic Decision
• Declaration Regarding Patients' Rights and Responsibilities
• Message From the Director

• Idea, Basic Decision, History
• Organization Chart of University Hospital
• Organization Chart of Administration Office
• Chronological List of Directors of University Hospital
• Established Date of Clinical Departments
• Clinical Departments
• Legal Authorization of Medical Services
• University Hospital Staff, Number of Staffs
• Number of Beds
• Patient Services in the University Hospital in 2011
• Clinical Indicator
• Access

Center of National University Hospital for Infection Control

Director YAGI, Tetsuya (Professor)

Special team for infection control and prevention in Nagoya University Hospital

This department is specialized for promoting hospital infection control and prevention and official management of Japan Infection Prevention and Control Conference for National and Public University Hospitals.

Medical Care System

Infection control team consisting of ICD (Infection Control Doctors), ICN (Infection Control Nurses), Pharmacists, laboratory technicians, and administrative staffs collaborate in controlling nosocomial infections and provide opportunities for consultations for diagnosis and treatment of infectious disease cases. We also undertake vaccination in an outpatient clinic basis once a week.

Target Disease

Various healthcare-associated infections, including pneumonia, bloodstream infections, and surgical site infections, device-associated infections, and occupational infections caused by needlestick injuries and blood exposure.

Features

Surveillance for drug resistant bacteria and device-related infections. Cross-sectional activities for planning and implementing infection control measures. Rapid feed back of clinical microbiological information to doctors in charge in cooperation with the microbiology laboratory. Working as a secretariat for Japan Infection Prevention and Control Conference for National and Public University Hospitals.

Clinical Results

Standardization in reprocessing endoscopes, vaccination outpatient clinic, infection control management for novel influenza and outbreak control of drug resistant bacteria, consultations for diagnosis and treatment of difficult-to-treat infectious diseases and support in the treatment for positive blood culture cases (about 800 cases annually).

Advanced Medicine and Research

Clinical and bacteriological research on drug resistant bacterial infections and mycobacterial infections.