Department of Anesthesiology

General anesthesia is required to undergo surgery without feeling pain while unconscious. Regional anesthesia is required to undergo surgery without feeling pain while conscious. There are various anesthesia methods within general anesthesia and regional anesthesia. In all surgeries, including recent new surgeries, anesthesiologists select the most appropriate method from these anesthesia methods to provide safe and comfortable anesthesia and protect the lives of patients during and after surgery.

It is easy to imagine that surgery without anesthesia would result in invasiveness and pain that the body would not be able to tolerate. Department of Anesthesiology is the science and methodology that has developed to scientifically control this invasiveness and pain so that the body can tolerate it. This is why it is also called "internal medicine in the operating room." As Department of Anesthesiology developed, intensive care medicine, which controls and treats invasiveness to the body, and pain clinics, which control and treat pain, were born as subspecialties.

In this course, we are researching what kind of anesthesia methods and systemic management can be used to maintain the patient's vital signs during surgery and promote postoperative recovery. Specific research topics include the development of quantitative indicators of surgical stress, research into optimal fluid management, and research into skeletal muscle mitochondria, which are a source of energy. We continue our research with the goal of contributing to humanity by applying the medical knowledge gained from these studies to medical care around the world.