Greetings
Kitano Hospital's Intensive Care Unit (ICU) is a new department that began operations in 2006. It has steadily grown into a unit that primarily handles postoperative surgical cases, as well as emergency and hospital-acquired severe cases. Our ICU employs a semi-closed system in which full-time intensive care specialists, rare among general hospitals, are responsible for overall patient management, with highly specialized physicians in charge. This system allows for stable patient management without being constrained by frameworks and unified ICU operation. However, managing a wide range of complex critically ill patients requires multidisciplinary collaboration among various departments, including nursing, pharmacy, clinical engineering, rehabilitation, and nutrition. Our ICU staff will continue to exchange information with other departments and work together to consistently provide ever-more advanced medical care.
Characteristics and Initiatives
- Doctor: 24-hour systemic management centered around a dedicated intensive care specialist
- Nurses: 24-hour system with at least one nurse for every two patients; training certified nurses
- Multidisciplinary collaboration: medical equipment management by the Department of Clinical Engineering, individual medication management by ward pharmacists, early rehabilitation, infection control (ICT) and nutritional management (NST) according to individual conditions
- Facility certification: Japanese Society of Intensive Care Medicine certified specialist training facility (2 specialists), specific intensive care unit management fee 1 standard (6 open beds, 2 private rooms)
- Education: In-house trainees and residents from each department are accepted for rotation, with two students per month.
About treatment
Intensive care unit admission criteria
- Loss of consciousness or coma
- Acute respiratory failure or acute exacerbation of chronic respiratory failure
- Acute heart failure (including myocardial infarction)
- Acute drug poisoning
- shock
- Severe metabolic disorders (liver failure, kidney failure, severe diabetes, etc.)
- Extensive burns
- After major surgery
- After emergency resuscitation
- Other serious conditions such as trauma or tetanus
Treatment results
*Fiscal 2022 results
| Number of cases admitted to intensive care units |
608 items |
| Number of artificial ventilation cases |
102 items |
| Number of hemodialysis cases |
34 items |
| Number of positive coronavirus cases |
13 items |
Business performance (treatment performance, academic societies, publications, research activities, etc.)
