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| Chief Hanako Kurai, M.D. |
Senior Staff Yuichiro Nakaya, M.D. |
Resident Yuki Kurakazu, M.D. |
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Infectious diseases include symptoms like fever caused by microorganisms such as bacteria and viruses. All the human beings carry some of these organisms by nature, but may catch the others from surrounding environments or other people. Immune systems of cancer patients are lowered against organisms because of their cancer treatments, and they are far more likely to catch infections than healthy people. Moreover, there can be very many microorganisms in a hospital because lots of people come in and out there. The critical tasks of the Division of Infectious Diseases is to promptly identify a patient who has developed an infectious disease and provide him/her with an optimal treatment skillfully and to prevent the spread of hospital infection. We do our best to put infectious diseases under control, so that cancer patients can focus on their cancer treatments.
Whenever we receive a report saying “our patient is suspected to have an infection as his/her temperature is rising” from another clinical department, we will take a quick action having him/her examined to reach what microorganism it is that causes the symptom, and curing him/her by the best choice of an antibiotic against it among numerous ones. Such quick response as that will prevent the patient’s exhaustion, and will minimize the impact on his/her cancer treatment.
When we detect multi drug-resistant bacteria, for which many antibiotics can’t be quite effective, or when a patient caught some very infectious organism such us influenza virus, we will promptly organize an infection control including quarantine of the patient so that the infection spread should be prevented or minimized.
The role of the Division of Infectious Diseases is to underpin cancer treatments by making sure that they are not interrupted by infectious diseases. We keep an eye on infectious diseases for preventing them, and even if they break out, we will do our best to control the spreads and to minimize the impacts. We would like all the patients here to feel secure about any infectious diseases and about focusing on their cancer treatments.
clinical study on infectious diseases
HIV infection
imported infectious diseases
infection disease prophylaxes
in-hospital infection control
Specialist and Supervisory Doctor Certified by the Japanese Association for Infectious Diseases
Certified Doctor, Specialist for General Internal Medicine and Supervisory Doctor, the Japanese Society of Internal Medicine
Group Leader, the AMR Control Working Group, Disease Control Division, Medicine and Health Bureau, Health and Welfare Department, Shizuoka Prefecture
Infection Control Doctor Certified by the Japanese College of Infection Control Doctors
general internal medicine
infectious diseases
emergency medicine
Certified Doctor, the Japanese Society of Internal Medicine
The Japanese Association for Infectious Diseases
Emergency Medicine Specialist Certified by the Japanese Association for Acute Medicine
Infection Control Doctor Certified by the Japanese College of Infection Control Doctors
general internal medicine
infectious diseases
The Japanese Society of Internal Medicine
The Japanese Association for Infectious Diseases
