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[SP1-1] Current status of ICU and intensive care medicine in Japan

Masaji Nishimura (President of JSICM/Tokushima Prefectural Central Hospital, Japan)

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1981年大阪大学医学部医学科卒業
1984年大阪大学助手医学部
1989年大阪府立母子保健総合医療センター麻酔科
1992年Harvard Medical School　Research Fellow
1994年兵庫医科大学麻酔科
1996年大阪大学医学部附属病院集中治療部
2004年徳島大学救急集中治療医学教授
2018年徳島県立中央病院

The Japanese Society of Intensive Care Medicine (JSICM) was founded in 1974. While it started as a small group, it has been growing and, as of 2018, the JSICM has 8,415 members. It is a multi-professional society including nurses, clinical technologists, and pharmacists and so on. The physicians are specialized in intensive care, with past experiences as anesthesiologists, emergency physicians, cardiologists, pediatricians, and so on. The specialist certification system was started in 1992. As of 2018, 1,847 specialists have been certified. In the future, we plan to revise it complying with the certification standards of the Japanese Medical Specialty Board. The nurses are engaged in a broad spectrum of activities and provide better care at the ICU on a 24-hours-per-day basis. The clinical engineers begin its organized activities, and contribute to advancing maintenance and inspection of life-sustaining devices at the ICU.We propose to make contributions to advances in intensive care from broad viewpoints, including efforts to establish a database on intensive care (Japanese Intensive care PAtient Database: JIPAD), facilitate clinical trials on intensive care at the global level. Nursing education seminars have been held, and scientific studies on nursing have been conducted under clinical settings, so as to stimulate cultivation of young competent nurses and improvement in nursing skills at ICU. Clinical engineers started educational seminar in 2018.Since 2001, the Japan-Korea Joint Congress has been held every year in the two countries in an alternating fashion. The Japan-Thailand Join Congress also started. With a purpose to improve the care of the critically ill patient, we created a strategic partnership with ESICM in 2013. The JSICM has been publishing a semi-official journal since 1976, and an official journal since 1994. On these journals, more than 100 scientific papers have been published annually in recent years, contributing to advancing education, research and the clinical aspects of intensive care. Furthermore, our English official Journal titled "Journal of Intensive Care" was launched in 2013.The JSICM will continue moving forward toward the goal of supporting and advancing intensive care, which is the last resort for life preservation and treatment of severely ill patients with acute stage.