Division and Department

Department of Emergency and Critical Care Medicine


Hajime NAKAE, M.D. (Acute Medicine)

A Greeting from the Professor

The department of emergency and critical care medicine, Akita Graduate School of Medicine, was founded in 1995. Emergency medicine is the starting point of the healthcare system. On the other hand, the idea of critical care harks back to the work of Florence Nightingale, who developed the intensive care unit system during the Crimean War in the 17th century. However, both emergency medicine and critical care medicine are comparatively new as research areas of medical science.

In these two areas, the construction of the healthcare delivery system is more important than basic medical research in improving the level of care for critically ill patients. Therefore, we aim at the betterment of emergency and disaster medical system in the region. To achieve this for the emergency medical service system, we are constructing an outcome database of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest and severe trauma cases, as an activity of the prefecture's “medical control conference. We promote training for instructors with a cardiac resuscitation and trauma simulation course. We are also developing a new “off the job training program.

Important tools of critical care medicine are artificial organ support, such as mechanical ventilation and acute blood purification therapy. Our research themes concern the development of new organ support methods. Another mission of ours is the speedy and efficient dissemination of strong evidence on, and general information about, critical care medicine in order to improve its quality and also patient safety.

Advanced Emergency and Critical Care Center was established in 2021. We have provided well-developed clinical-based education since then.

Staff

Professor:
Hajime NAKAE, M.D. (Acute Medicine)

Associate Professor:
Manabu OKUYAMA, M.D.

Research Areas

The main activities of the Department of Emergency and Critical Care Medicine are as follows:

  1. Construction of emergency of medical service systems
  2. Dissemination of and training for cardiopulmonary resuscitation
  3. Clinical and laboratory research in cardiopulmonary resuscitation
  4. International disaster relief activity
  5. Traumatology
  6. Development of blood purification therapy
  7. Mass-casualty management and disaster medicine
  8. Clinical and laboratory research on burns and sepsis
  9. Clinical and laboratory research on cardiotonic drugs in critical settings

Contact Information

Associate Professor Manabu OKUYAMA
Phone: +81-18-884-6185
Fax: +81-18-884-6450
E-mail: okuyamanabu@med.akita-u.ac.jp

Most Recent Achievements

  1. Irie Y, Nakae H, Fukui S. (2021) Three mild cases of coronavirus disease 2019 treated with saikatsugekito, a Japanese herbal medicine. Traditional & Kampo Medicine 8: 111-114.
  2. Satoh, K., Okuyama, M., Irie, Y., Kameyama, K., Kitamura, T., Nara, T., Nakae, H. (2021) Continuous plasma exchange with dialysis for severe sepsis: case series of a novel blood purification method. Cureus 13: e12495.
  3. Satoh, K., Okuyama, M., Nakae, H. (2021) Association between the simplest clinical factors and emergency department dispositions: a retrospective observational study. Cureus 13: e12844.
  4. Satoh, K., Okuyama, M., Irie, Y., Kameyama, K., Kitamura, T., Nakae, H. (2021) Continuous plasma exchange with dialysis for thrombotic microangiopathy in intensive care unit: Retrospective observational study. Ther Apher Dial 25: 377-383.
  5. Irie, Y., Nara, T., Satoh, K. , Kameyama, K., Kitamura, T., Okuyama, M., Nakae, H. (2021) Survey on the current status of self-immolation attempts in Akita Prefecture: a cross-sectional survey. Burns Open 5: 29-35.
  6. Satoh, K., Nomura, K., Nakae, H、Kudo D, Kushimoto S., Hasegawa M., Ito F, Yamanouchi S, Honda H, Andoh K., Furukawa H., Yamada Y, Tsujimoto Y, Okuyama M.. (2021) Blood purification therapy for severe sepsis: a multicenter, observational cohort study in northern Japan. Ren Replace Ther 7, 47.
    https://doi.org/10.1186/s41100-021-00366-4
  7. Satoh, K., Nakae, H. (2021) Daijokito administration in critically ill patients increasing the stool volume: a retrospective observational study. Front Nutr 11 October 2021　https://doi.org/10.3389/fnut.2021.749570
  8. Satoh, K., Morisawa, S., Okuyama, M., Nakae, H. (2021) Severe pleural effusion associated with nilotinib for chronic myeloid leukaemia: cross-intolerance with tyrosine kinase inhibitors. BMJ case reports, 14
  9. Irie Y, Nakae H, Fukui S. (2021) Treatment of coronavirus disease 2019 with saikatsugekito: a case series. Tradit Kampo Med 8: 211-220.
  10. Irie, Y., Nara, T., Satoh, K. , Kameyama, K., Kitamura, T., Okuyama, M., Nakae, H. (2021) Acute appendicitis in an elderly patient treated with choyoto in combination with conservative antibiotic therapy. Tradit Kampo Med 8: 247-250.
  11. Nakae H, Satoh K, Okuyama M. (2022) Plasma adiponectin levels in acute liver failure patients treated with plasma exchange with dialysis. Ther Apher Dial 26: 671-672.
  12. Kitamura, T., Nakae, H., Irie, Y., Satoh, K. , Hirasawa N, Kameyama, K., Suzuki Y, Maeno Y, Yoshida K, Okuyama, M. (2022) Safety of jidabokuippo administration based on adverse event rate. Tradit Kampo Med 9: 18-24.
  13. Nakae H, Irie Y. (2020) Relevance of Kampo in emergency and critical care medicine. Traditional & Kampo Medicine 7: 63-68.
  14. Nakae H, Irie Y. Satoh, K., Kitamura, T, Kameyama, K., Nara T, Okuyama, M. (2021) Treatment for tetanus applying Kampo medicine: Administration of shakuyakukanzoto. Traditional & Kampo Medicine 8: 130-137.
  15. Nakae H, Irie Y. Kitamura, T, Okuyama, M. (2022) Application of traditional Japanese drug jidabokuippo in a modern society. Front Pharmacol 2022; 13.　10.3389/fphar.2022.853012
  16. Nakae H, Kan’o T, Irie Y, Tokunaga K, Kashima M, Liu X.Z. (2022) Application of traditional medicine in emergency and critical care “1st International Symposium on Kampo Medicine”. Tradit Kampo Med 9: 119-120.

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