Emergency, Critical Care and Disaster Medicine

Professor: NAKAO Atsunori

The department is highly active in both basic and clinical research. Our basic science studies focus on therapeutic medical gases including hydrogen and carbon monoxide against ischemia-reperfusion injury and exploring their mechanisms of action. Indeed, we are strongly committed to facilitating clinical application. A clinical trial of hydrogen gas inhalation for acute respiratory distress syndrome will be launched shortly as bench-to-bedside research.

Our clinical research interests cover a wide range of diseases including cardiac arrest, sepsis, trauma, or critically ill conditions. Remarkably, a randomized clinical trial comparing therapeutic hypothermia with normothermia after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) will be running immediately. Other specific projects include the analysis of OHCA or trauma registry data, frailty in emergency and critical care settings, the management of post-extubation dysphagia, quantitative analysis of sputum in critically ill patients and so much more!

Keywords

Medical gas, hydrogen, carbon monoxide, ischemia reperfusion, organ preservation, out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, trauma, sepsis

Site

https://okayama-u-qq.sakura.ne.jp/research

Contact

Professor: NAKAO Atsunori
E-mail:qq-nakaookayama-u.ac.jp