Emergency Summoning: Subway Sarin, Seen by an Emergency Physician Toru Okumura An emergency physician who treated victims of the Tokyo subway sarin attack questions the state of Japanese emergency and disaster medicine, and crisis management based on his experience. On that day, the author, rushing to the morning meeting at St. Luke's International Hospital by taxi, is suddenly caught up in an emergency. There seems to have been an explosion on the subway he usually takes. Among the patients brought in one after another, some are already in a state of cardiopulmonary arrest. Normally, such critically ill patients have dilated pupils. However, the pupils of the patients this time are all small. Some people complain that they cannot see. Something is wrong. The emergency medical care for the sarin attack began that way, with 640 emergency patients being transported in the morning alone. In medicine, emergency medicine must respond to all situations. From the experience of saving a large number of patients at once without being able to identify the cause, the author feels a sense of crisis about the current state of Japanese emergency medicine and crisis management. From there, he makes concrete and wide-ranging proposals, from utilizing the potential of taxis in emergencies to the way of training resident doctors, citing the example of Okinawa Prefectural Chuo Hospital. Price: ¥1600 #ToruOkumura #Toru_Okumura #book #JapaneseLiterature/Essays