Greetings
Our goal as staff of General Internal Medicine is to be physicians who provide patient-centered daily care and develop high-quality health management and preventive medicine in the community. We are generalists who excel in emergency medicine, capable of triage and appropriate response to emergency illnesses. We aim to provide comprehensive care that possesses broad knowledge across all fields, considering not only physical and laboratory findings but also mental and functional aspects, and offering holistic, inter-organ care from a comprehensive perspective. We hope that this will be of some help to your practice and to your patients. We look forward to your continued support.
Chief of General Internal Medicine Medicine
Hideki Ozawa
Treatment details
Primary care, infectious diseases, and intensive care
The main areas of practice in the Department of General Internal Medicine are primary care, emergency medicine, and infectious diseases. Medical care in university hospitals requires a high level of specialization, and until now, specialized care has been provided for each organ. However, diseases are systemic, and often involve problems in multiple organs. The Department of General Internal Medicine handles common diseases brought in by patients themselves, undiagnosed diseases referred by local physicians, nighttime internal medicine emergency outpatient services, and secondary and tertiary emergency internal medicine cases transported by ambulance. In addition, there is a team specializing in intensive care (ICU team) composed of staff who have received training in internal medicine intensive care. They mainly handle critically ill patients who arrive by ambulance, patients whose condition suddenly deteriorates within the hospital, and critically ill patients transferred from other hospitals. There is also a team specializing in infectious diseases, which provides treatment for emerging infectious diseases such as HIV infection and consultations for hospitalized infectious disease cases.
Main target diseases
General internal medicine:
Diseases in which patients visit the hospital with symptoms such as fainting, loss of consciousness, difficulty breathing, chest and back pain, palpitations, headache, dizziness, fever, shock, acute abdominal pain, electrolyte abnormalities, hyperglycemia, hypoglycemia, sepsis, endocrine disorders, anemia, and DIC.
Internal medicine intensive care:
Shock, sepsis, multiple organ failure, severe pneumonia, respiratory failure, status asthmaticus, ARDS, severe heart failure, acute renal failure, metabolic disturbance, diabetic acidosis, severe electrolyte abnormalities, endocrine (adrenal, thyroid) crisis, etc.
Infectious diseases:
Emerging infectious diseases such as HIV infection, travel-related infectious diseases (diagnosis, treatment and prevention of travel-related infectious diseases), consultations on various infectious diseases
Main medical achievements
The annual number of inpatients is approximately 338, of which about 58% are infectious diseases such as sepsis, pneumonia, urinary tract infections, soft tissue infections, and endocarditis; 12% are respiratory diseases; and the rest are diverse, including cardiovascular diseases, kidney diseases, neurological diseases, endocrine and metabolic diseases, malignant diseases, hematological diseases, and collagen diseases. In addition to admissions from daytime outpatient visits, we are responsible for frontline internal medicine primary care, including patients who come to the hospital at night, during after-hours outpatient visits, and those who arrive by ambulance.
In addition to treating general internal medicine diseases, Professor Ozawa Hideki is a cardiologist, Associate Professor Oki Masayuki is a hematologist, and Lecturer Yanagi Hidetaka and Assistant Professor Tsuda Ayumi are infectious disease specialists, and they provide ongoing medical care in their specialized fields. The intensive care team, consisting of intensive care specialists Lecturer Yanagi Hidetaka and Lecturer Manabe Saki, treats severe internal medicine diseases such as severe sepsis, shock, respiratory failure due to severe pneumonia, circulatory failure, and diabetic acidosis. We can also handle severe cases that are difficult to manage at general hospitals, so please refer them to us.
Lecturer Hidetaka Yanagi plays a central role in the treatment of infectious diseases. As a base hospital in the western Kanagawa region, we have seen many cases of emerging infectious diseases such as HIV infection. Please refer us if you are suffering from any infectious disease related disease, not limited to HIV infection.
Doctor List
Department Head: Hideki Ozawa
Deputy Chief of Outpatient and Emergency Resuscitation Room: Hidetaka Yanagi
Deputy Chief Physician of Ward 8A: Saki Manabe
Ward 8B Chief Physician: Masayuki Oki
Outpatient: 0463（93）1121 extension 6711
Professor Hideki Ozawa
| Specialization | Internal medicine/cardiology |
|---|---|
| Specialist | Certified General Internal Medicine specialist and instructor by the Japanese Society of Internal Medicine / Japanese cardiologist / Certified physician and instructor by the Japan Primary Care Association |
| Specialized Areas | General Internal Medicine, Cardiovascular Disease, Arteriosclerosis |
| Outpatient medical day | Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday (1st and 5th) |
Associate Professor Masayuki Oki
| Specialization | Internal Medicine/Blood Diseases |
|---|---|
| Specialist | Certified specialist and instructor General Internal Medicine medicine by the Japanese Society of Internal Medicine, specialist by the Japanese Society of Hematology, and certified by the Japan Primary Care Association |
| Specialized Areas | Myeloproliferative disorders/lymphomas |
| Outpatient medical day | Tuesdays, Fridays, and Saturdays (3rd) |
Lecturer: Hidetaka Yanagi
| Specialization | Internal Medicine/Infectious Diseases |
|---|---|
| Specialist | Certified General Internal Medicine Specialist and Instructor by the Japanese Society of Internal Medicine / Specialist by the Japanese Association of Infectious Diseases / Senior Member of the American College of Physicians / Certified by the Japan Primary Care Association / Intensive Care Specialist |
| Specialized Areas | General Internal Medicine, Infectious Diseases, and Intensive Care |
| Outpatient medical day | Mondays, Thursdays (PM), and the third Saturday |
Lecturer: Saki Manabe
| Specialization | General Internal Medicine |
|---|---|
| Specialist | Certified General Internal Medicine Specialist and Supervising Physician by the Japanese Society of Internal Medicine / Intensive Care Specialist and Specialist of the Japanese Association of Infectious Diseases |
| Specialized Areas | General internal medicine/intensive care |
| Outpatient medical day | Friday |
Lecturer: Shinichi Goto
| Specialization | Internal medicine/cardiology |
|---|---|
| Specialist | Japan Society of Internal Medicine certified doctor |
| Specialized Areas | General Internal Medicine /Cardiovascular Disease |
| Outpatient medical day | Wednesday |
Assistant Professor Takako Kobayashi
| Specialization | Internal medicine/diabetes |
|---|---|
| Specialist | Certified General Internal Medicine Specialist and Instructor by the Japanese Society of Internal Medicine/Diabetes Specialist |
| Specialized Areas | General Internal Medicine /Diabetes |
| Outpatient medical day | Wednesday (Diabetes Outpatient Clinic) and Thursday |
Assistant Professor Ayumi Tsuda
| Specialization | General Internal Medicine |
|---|---|
| Specialist | Specialist General Internal Medicine, Japanese Society of Internal Medicine, Specialist in the Japanese Association of Infectious Diseases, Specialist in the Japanese Association of Infectious Diseases |
| Specialized Areas | General internal medicine/infectious diseases |
| Outpatient medical day | Thursday |
Assistant Professor Abe Satoshi
| Specialization | Internal medicine/general practice |
|---|---|
| Specialist | Certified by the Japanese Society of Internal Medicine/Family Medicine Specialist |
| Specialized Areas | General Internal Medicine /Family Medicine |
| Outpatient medical day | Tuesday |
Assistant Professor Shota Sato
| Specialization | Internal Medicine |
|---|---|
| Specialist | Japanese Society of Internal Medicine General Internal Medicine Specialist |
| Specialized Areas | General Internal Medicine and Intensive Care |
| Outpatient medical day | Monday |
Assistant Professor Ryohei Tomita
| Specialization | Internal Medicine |
|---|---|
| Specialist | Certified by Internal Medicine Specialist |
| Specialized Areas | General Internal Medicine and Intensive Care |
| Outpatient medical day | Wednesday |
Assistant Professor Yusuke Owada
| Specialization | Internal Medicine |
|---|---|
| Specialist | Certified by Internal Medicine Specialist |
| Specialized Areas | General Internal Medicine |
| Outpatient medical day | Thursday |
Assistant Professor Takihiko Miyagawa
| Specialization | Internal Medicine |
|---|---|
| Specialist | Certified by Internal Medicine Specialist |
| Specialized Areas | General Internal Medicine |
| Outpatient medical day | Tuesday |
Assistant Professor Takuto Nishimura
| Specialization | Internal medicine/general practice |
|---|---|
| Specialist | Certified by Internal Medicine Specialist |
| Outpatient medical day | Friday |
Assistant Professor Ayaki Sano
| Specialization | Internal Medicine |
|---|---|
| Specialist | Certified by Internal Medicine Specialist |
| Specialized Areas | General Internal Medicine |
| Outpatient medical day | Monday |
Assistant Professor Masayuki Kawabe
| Specialization | Internal medicine/general practice |
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