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Emergency Medicine Lab
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The lab studies emergency medicine, investigating the damage the body suffers at the front line of saving lives and how it responds.

AboutAbout the lab
Toward the front line of saving lives, in a spirit of cooperation and harmony
The lab, together with the Emergency and Critical Care Center of Hokkaido University Hospital, provides tertiary emergency care in Sapporo.
It is a group of acute care specialists who accept patients regardless of the type of illness, whether acute disease, trauma, or poisoning, and provide life-saving treatment and intensive care for severe cases.
Since the lab was established, its main research theme has been elucidating the pathophysiology of insults to the body and the body's responses to them.
In cooperation with the Department of Forensic Medicine, the lab also measures toxic substances in patients suspected of poisoning.
Key terms
- Tertiary emergency care
- The most advanced level of emergency medical care, which accepts emergency patients in severe, life-threatening condition
- Intensive care
- Treating patients in life-threatening condition around the clock while supporting their breathing and blood circulation with equipment
- Insult to the body
- Major strain or damage inflicted on the body by injury, surgery, severe infection, and the like
NewsLab news
Held an information session on the emergency department for students and residents
A staff physician received the Hokkaido University School of Medicine Excellent Paper Award
A staff physician received the Japanese Society of Resuscitation Excellent Paper Award
Paper on how PPM1D is degraded by the proteasome published in Journal of Biomedical Science
A staff physician received the Frate Research Encouragement Award
ResearchResearch themes
Since its establishment, the lab has made the elucidation of the pathophysiology of insults to the body and the body's responses to them its main research theme, and has shared a great deal of evidence with the world. It has released a score calculation tool that predicts neurological recovery in patients resuscitated from cardiac arrest, and also conducts a clinical study led by the Japanese Association for Acute Medicine (ICE-CRASH II).
View More ↗MembersFaculty
The lab's members consist of faculty, staff physicians, and orthopaedic surgeons of the trauma orthopaedic team. Physicians from the Emergency Department of Hokkaido University Hospital also join in providing guidance.As of 2026
- ProfessorTakeshi Wada
- Assistant ProfessorShuhei Takauji
- Assistant ProfessorAkira Endo
- Assistant ProfessorTomonao Yoshida
- Project Assistant ProfessorTomoyo Saito
- Project Assistant ProfessorMariko Hayamizu
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