Staff and specialities

Chief, Professor:  Yusaku OKADA
Assoiciate Chief, Assistant Professor:  Keiko HONMA 
Assistant Professor:  Takasi CHIHARA

Outline of the department

Our surgical operation center has ten rooms for inpatient-surgeries  
(including two clean rooms) and one room for outpatient-surgeries, and about 
3900 operations are performed annually.  Regular staffs are twenty seven 
nurses ( before April 2003, twenty three), two nurse assistants and four 
clinical engineers (Clinical engineers also work at hemodialysis center) .  
Engineers take care of all electronic instruments including systems of extra-
corporeal circulation for cardiac surgeries, percutaneous cardiopulmonary 
support (PCPS) and endoscopic surgeries, and machines and monitors for 
anesthesia.  All anesthesia but local anesthesia is carried out by 
anesthesiologists ( About 2900 operations are under general, epidural or 
spinal anesthesia). The following chart is the weekly schedule of surgeries.  
Besides, we are always ready for emergency surgeries day and night.
			

Dep. or Surgery MON _ TUE _ WED _ THU _ FRI _
_ AM PM AM PM AM PM AM PM AM PM
Cardiac Surgery * * o o * * o o * *
Respiratory S. * * o o * * o o * *
Digestive S. o o * * o o * * * *
Breast S. etc * * * * o o * * o *
Orthopedics * * o o * * o o * *
Neuro-surgery * * o o * o o o * *
Ear,Nose,Throat o o * * * o * o o o
Gynecology * * o o o o o * * *
Urology o * * o o * * o o *
Ophthalmology o o * * o * * * o o
Oral Surgery o * * * * * * * o o
Dermatology * * * * * o * * * o
Bone Marrow Collection * * * * * * * * o *
Pain Clinic * * * * * o * * * *