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Part2 Information on Departments, Facilities, etc.

Department of Hospital Pharmacy
Director YAMADA, Kiyofumi (Professor)
Solely in charge of management of the large quantities of medicines and drugs
The department consists of the director, five deputy directors, 13 team leaders, 53 pharmacists, six pharmacist residents, and four administrative staff members.

Operation System

The department consists of a drug dispensing section, injection dispensing section, drug formulation sections (I, II and III), narcotic drug section, drug information section, medication record management sections (I, II and III), testing laboratory, drug affairs section, advanced medical drug support section, drug safety control support section, and administration office.

Scope of Medical Services

The department purchases, prepares, formulates, and manages drugs; prepares infusion solutions and antineoplastic drugs; keeps control of narcotic drugs; and gathers and provides information on drugs. The department is also in charge of the operations of the pharmaceutical affairs committee, therapeutic drug monitoring (TDM), administration planning, medication guidance, checks for drugs brought to the hospital by inpatients, and medication guidance upon discharge from the hospital.

Features

Upon request from the primary doctor or the patient, we provide guidance (pharmacist clinic) on inhalation therapy for bronchial asthma and use of warfarin and Aricept to help optimize the effectiveness and safety of drug therapies.

Medical Service Results

Other support includes checking prescriptions for cancer chemotherapy, preparing antineoplastic drugs according to certified regimens (Department of Clinical Oncology and Chemotherapy), and testing drugs used for PET (Central Block of Radiology).

Other Undertakings and Research

In our department, there are 24 board certified pharmacists and pharmacy specialists certified by academic societies and 15 doctoral degree holders. Professor and associate professor at the Department of Hospital Pharmacy also teach at the School of Medicine and at the Department of Neuropsychopharmacology in the Graduate School of Medicine.

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