MURAGAKI Yoshihiro    Department   School of Medicine(Tokyo Women's Medical University Hospital), School of Medicine    Position   Visiting Professor
Language	Japanese
Title	Intensive care unit system for transportation of animal patient.
Conference Type	Nationwide Conferences
Presentation Type	Speech
Date	2008/10/31
Society abstract	日本コンピュータ外科学会誌 10(3),451-452 2008
Summary	Abstract: We have been proposing "therapeutic experiment" for sick animals as a novel evaluation protocol of newly developed medical instruments and devices, which is positioned between basic research and clinical study. "Intelligent animal operating theater" at Tokyo Women's Medical University works as a platform for the therapeutic experiment". Day surgery will be operated there using intraoperative MR and ultrasonic images, HIFU (High Intensity Focused Ultrasound), and navigation system. As subject animal is transported between animal hospital and the operating theater, we have developed an intensive care unit system for animals with severe disease and/or requiring postoperative bed rest. The system consists of cage, controller unit, and oxygen concentrator, and can control temperature, humidity, and oxygen level. We conducted transportation simulation between animal hospital (Suginami, Tokyo) and operating theater (Shinjuku, Tokyo). The system is put on a rented van and fixed to seats using belts. It took 40 - 45 minutes each way. We experienced no significant difficulty in the transportation simulation. As the dimension of the vehicle and the position of doors might limit the access to the cage, the double swing doors of the cage should be modified to another configuration, such as removable ones. Key words: On vihecle, Animal cage,