Annual Report 2017
Department of Intensive Care Medicine
Ryohei Serita
Introduction
The Department of Intensive Care Medicine came into existence on November 1, 2016.
The mission of our department is to provide safe and efficient care for postoperative patients and critically ill patients. In step with the aging of the population, patients with cancer have been at higher risk for complications at the pretreatment evaluation. Therefore, high quality care is needed to ensure efficient procedures. We believe that this new department plays a pivotal role in safe and efficient care for patients within the National Cancer Center Hospital East (NCCHE). We are working with the aim to further enhance it.
Our team and what we do
Our clinical focus is to manage the eight-bed intensive care unit (ICU), and provide specialist advice to attending physicians for all critically ill patients. The number of patients admitted to the ICU was 1,939 in 2017 (Table 1).
Table 1. Number of patients admitted to ICU (January 2017 - March 2018)
Research activities
Our research interests include magnesium ion homeostasis of cancer patients. Several studies have been in the planning stage.
Clinical trials
Currently, our department has no clinical trial.
Education
Currently, our department has no educational programs for residents.
Future prospects
The objective of our department is to establish ICU, which has a functional role in offering high intensive care for cancer patients. We will work to further define and refine what we do, as providing high quality care.