Palliative Care
September 2,2019 Update
What is Palliative Care?
The purpose of palliative care is to understand and mitigate the varieties of pain caused by the disease and treatment and to support the healing process of the person and their family from the aspects of both the mind and the body to the limits of life. It is to improve the quality of life of the person who is alive now while maintaining the various paces and respecting the thoughts of each individual.
It is one of the important processes to relieve symptoms such as pain and respiratory distress, but that's not the goal. It may play an important role in the support at the end of life, but there is a role that should be played in support of those who have got better through treatment and who are currently in therapy.
What is the Palliative Care team?
The palliative care team is primarily to provide palliative care for patients with malignant tumors and is a team that is working to provide better symptom relief in cooperation with the physician in charge of each department and the nurse. The team comprises doctors, nurses, pharmacists and medical social workers, and the visiting nursing station staff. Doctors are in charge of relieving pain (there are several physicians with different specialties in the group) and psychiatrists (mental clinic) relieve mental and emotional worries in a collaborative practice. A palliative care certified nurse leads other nurses and is in charge of the patient's care.
Method for consulting with the Palliative Care team
Regardless of the condition of the disease, please consult your doctor or the nurse in charge of your ward if you are hospitalized. If you are an outpatient, we will support you through outpatient palliative care so please refer to the outpatient items. We will provide continued care in cooperation with the consultation desk and the nursing specialist outpatient clinic located in the outpatient chemotherapy room on the 3rd floor. The doctor and the nurse in charge will not change. They will also support the family members. In addition, the hospital will cooperate with you regarding home support etc. when you leave our hospital and return home.
Palliative Care Outpatient
Medical Service Content
The purpose of our palliative care team is to support not only people who are in the hospital but also outpatients, so we have established Palliative Care Outpatient Center as follows:
Medical treatment days and system
- Date and time: Every Monday 13:30-16:30, every Friday 15:00-16:30
- Location: Saitama Medical Center, 1F, Surgical Outpatient
- System: Appointment system
- Doctor: Satoaki Gika, Takehiko Sakimoto
- Nurses: Kazumi Komine, Masako Matsuzaki, Emi Abe: Palliative Care Certified nurses and nurses in charge of surgery outpatient
- Other
- Please understand that there is no inpatient / palliative care ward.
Outpatient examination method
- Please tell your doctor about your request if you are visiting our hospital. After that, we'll make a reservation so please come directly to the outpatient clinic or contact the following office.
- If you have already been seen at other hospital, please contact the following window to make a reservation.
- You or your family member must have a referral letter (Medical treatment information documents) on the day of reservation.
Contact us
- Saitama Medical Center,
Outpatient surgery (Palliative Care Outpatient) 049-228-3756 - Saitama Medical Center,
Cancer Care Support Office 049-228-3455
- Palliative Care
- Cancer Counseling Support Center
- Cancer Clinical Research and Results
- Survey summary report
- Hospital Cancer Registration
- Directory of those who completed the workshops
- Cancer Regional Cooperation Critical Path
- About the PDCA cycle establishment system
- Introduction to palliative care training sessions
