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Department of Intensive Care Unit
The Department of Intensive Care Unit manages and mainly treats patients after highly invasive surgery and patients with severe conditions such as sepsis, multiple organ dysfunction syndrome, and shock.
Medical services
Staff specializing in acute medicine, internal medicine, cardiovascular medicine, nephrology, neurosurgery, orthopedic surgery, general surgery, and anesthesiology provide around-the-clock intensive care in the ICU.
Treatment policy
Treatment plans are determined at daily ICU conferences attended by ICU staff and physicians from departments specializing in the care each ICU patient requires.
Specialties
Ventilation management
For patients with ARDS and severe pneumonia who cannot be managed by ordinary artificial ventilation, the optimal artificial ventilation management is performed based on the latest evidence.
Shock
The diagnosis of shock is based on the pathologic condition and appropriate treatment is provided according to the cause, aiming at early stabilization.
Multiple organ dysfunction syndrome
Multiple organ dysfunction syndrome caused by shock and sepsis is treated using mechanical devices (artificial ventilation, acute blood purification, assisted circulatory device, etc.)
Kent Doi
Departments/Divisions
Emergency and Critical Care Medicine, Critical Care and Emergency Medical Center/ER, Department of Intensive Care Unit, Department of Medical Engineering, Department of Disaster Medical Management
Titles
M.D., Ph.D.
Expertise/Specialties
Critical care medicine, Emergency medicine, Nephrology
Research Interests
Sepsis, Multiple organ failure, Acute kidney injury, Blood purification
Languages
English/Japanese
Since the Secondary ICU was installed in 2007, the Intensive Care Unit had been managed with a total of 40 beds comprising the Primary and Secondary ICUs until the Critical Care Center was launched in 2010, and 6 of the beds in the Secondary ICU were reallocated for critical care, consequently decreasing the total number of ICU beds to 34. The repair work which took place in 2010 also led to a temporary decrease in the number of inpatients; however, with an increasing number of patients with severe diseases visiting the center for emergency outpatient services, the total number of inpatients has been increasing since then.
Annual number of inpatients
| 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 |
|---|
| Primary ICU | 823 | 795 | 844 | 760 | 675 |
| Secondary ICU | 1,865 | 1,865 | 1,862 | 1,817 | 1,755 |
| Critical Care Center ICU | － | － | － | 220 (from August) |
268 |
| Total | 2,688 | 2,660 | 2,706 | 2,797 | 2,698 |
