Fujita Health University Hospital in Toyoake City, Aichi Prefecture, has been assigned to the national independent administrative agency "Automobile Accident Countermeasures Organization" as a specialized bed "consistent case study type consignment bed" for treating patients who have been seriously injured due to brain damage caused by a traffic accident. Was the first consignment in Japan.It is a bed for clinical research on continuous treatment, nursing, and rehabilitation from immediately after the accident to the chronic phase, and is scheduled to accept patients from January 2018.
According to Fujita Health University Hospital, there are 5 beds to be installed.Conventional specialized beds are treated at multiple hospitals and accept patients with stable medical conditions, but in the integrated case study type consignment bed, patients treated in the acute phase at the critical care center of Fujita Health University Hospital immediately after the accident are treated. Accept and proceed with rehabilitation by the same doctors.
It is said that brain damage caused by a traffic accident tends to improve as the time to enter a specialized bed is shorter, but with a conventional specialized bed, it took about a year from the accident to hospitalization.The National Agency for Automotive Safety and Victims plans to expand the number of contractors if the treatment effect is confirmed.
The number of fatalities due to traffic accidents is declining due to advances in emergency medical care, but the number of patients suffering from severe aftereffects is about 1,800 every year.Since there is no facility in Japan that can provide consistent treatment from immediately after the accident to the chronic phase, patients are shifting from emergency hospitals to general hospitals in about three months.The treatment immediately after the accident is also focused on life support rather than healing purpose.
