Department of Surgery, National Hospital Organization Kobe Medical Center
National Institute of Polar Research, Research Organization of Information and Systems
In October, 2005, we sent several questions to foreign Antarctic wintering-over stations by e-mail, and made an international comparative study of winter medical services at 18 stations of 13 nations. The number of wintering members at the stations that we investigated was 4-37 persons, and the average age was 36.4 years old. Syowa Station had two medical doctors, and the others had one each. There were 4 female doctors, 22% of all wintering-over doctors. About 60% stations had medical facilities for operations under general-anesthesia. In the past, 32 operations including 14 appendectomies have been performed at 9 stations. There have been 18 deaths at 9 stations. Most were accidental deaths, 2 were caused by acute myocardial infarction. At 11 stations, there were 21 medical evacuations in summer, and 2 in winter, including 11 cases of orthopedic disease and 3 of acute appendicitis.
南極越冬基地における医療の国際比較調査
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