Department of Anesthesiology
Corresponding: nosaka@belle.shiga-med.ac.jp
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Staff and specialities
Professor: Shuichi NOSAKA Anesthetic Malpractice 1)
Associate Professor: Makoto TAKENOSHITA Anesthesia Mechanism 2)
Assistant Professor: Sei FUKUI Pain Medicine 3)
Assistant Professor: Tomoyoshi SETO Anesthetic Mechanisms 4)
Assistant: Yoshihisa FUJINO Autotransfusion, Anesthetic Management 5)
Assistant: Hirotoshi KITAGAWA Cardiac Anesthesia, Cardiac physiology 6)
Assistant: Akiko KUZUKAWA Anesthetic Management, Neurology 7)
Assistant: Yaeko MAKIURA Anesthesia and Sleep 8)
Assistant: Osamu KOJIMA Autotransfusion 9)
Outline of the department
The Department of Anesthesiology carries out the following:
Patient assessments and consultations in preparation for administration of anesthetics.
Anesthetic services in operating rooms.

Pain clinic of cancer pain, chronic pain with neural blockade and oriental method. The department's main research projects are in the fields of :

1) Anesthetic malpractice: Anesthetic malpractices are investigated in view of judgements and risk management.
2) Anesthesia mechanism: Actions of general anesthetics on synaptic transmission are studied using slice preparations of rat brain and spinal cord.
3) Pain Medicine: Investigations of effects of chronic neuropathic pain on brain nevfal function are being carried out using proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy(1H-MRS), SPECT, and Xenon-CT.
4) Anesthetic Mechanisms at the level of molecular interactions between an anesthetic and its binding site using NMR and simulation.
5) Autotransfusion: Effectiveness of Acute Normovolemic Hemodilution and/in combination with Preserved Autotransfusion during perioperative time.
6) Cardiac Physiology: Investigation of effects of hypothermia and general anesthetic on cardiac sympathetic nerve terminal functions are being carried out using cardiac microdialysis technique.
7) Neurology: Nigrothalamocortical projection system by unit activity recording.
8) Anesthesia and Sleep: The effect of anesthesia on sleep, especially on REM sleep is studied using rat.
9) Autotransfusion: Safety of autotransfusion.