Emergency and Critical Care Medicine

Overview

Provides rapid assessment and intensive management for severe acute illness, trauma, and life-threatening medical or surgical emergencies.

Key Strengths at Kobe University Hospital

• High-acuity emergency and critical care within a tertiary referral hospital capable of supporting severe infection, shock, respiratory failure, trauma, and multiorgan dysfunction.
• Multidisciplinary management of life-threatening conditions in collaboration with surgery, anesthesiology, cardiovascular medicine, infectious diseases, and other departments.
• Important as the front-line service for unstable patients transferred from other hospitals or presenting with severe acute disease.

Major Conditions / Services

• Emergency stabilization and critical care support
• Severe infection, shock, respiratory failure, and multiorgan dysfunction
• Major medical and surgical emergencies

Representative Procedures / Programs

• Emergency triage and resuscitation
• Intensive care management
• Multidisciplinary treatment of critically ill patients