Hospital Care Solutions Division

Solving issues hospitals face by providing solutions to help improve the quality and safety of healthcare

The Hospital Care Solutions Division offers a variety of expertise to address the needs of medical settings, including medical safety, in-facility infection prevention, and cost control. The division develops products that reduce the burden on patients and medical professionals and offer greater usability, provide operational support for medical equipment, and present training programs for medical professionals. By offering solutions to issues that are tough to solve simply by a single product, we contribute to improved treatment safety, workflow efficiency, and better quality of life for patients.

Perioperative Solutions

As Japan's aging society increases demand on healthcare, limited healthcare resources must be utilized effectively and efficiently to make healthcare sustainable and high-quality. Medical institutions are responding by separating and coordinating between hospital wards to give healthcare that matches each patient's condition, whether acute, recovery, or chronic. Acute care hospitals treating critically ill patients focus resources on advanced care; they therefore require efficiency and shorter hospital stays.
Terumo contributes to improved workflow efficiency and safety through interconnection between devices and in-facility systems. We also provide a post-operative anti-adhesion spray that helps to prevent complications from organs and tissues that can adhere undesirably during the healing process—the first product of its kind in Japan. Additionally, we offer post-operative pain relief medicine that helps patients get back on their feet quicker, plus solutions that enable speedier post-operative nutritional intake, and more. Through these products and solutions, we support workflow efficiency in addition to speedier patient discharge.

Advanced Drug Management Solutions

The work of administering drugs to patients by infusion, injection, or other means happens daily in all kinds of medical settings, from ICUs to general hospital wards. Usually, a safe drug administration requires confirmation of several things during preparation and just before administration: The right patient, right drug, right dose, right route right time, and right purpose. Particularly in settings such as operating rooms and ICUs, healthcare professionals have an extremely heavy workload as they must handle a diverse array of drugs accurately and safely and also keep drug administration records, all while performing various treatments on patients with serious or acute phase cases.
Terumo has pursued and incorporated functionality and design into its drug administration products and systems to reduce a variety of associated risks. As drug administration management for patients has become more complex and precise in recent years, Terumo has developed infusion and syringe pumps equipped with drug libraries and with connectivity to in-facility electronic medical records and systems within hospital departments as advanced drug management solutions. Through our efforts toward digital health with automated records and monitoring of drug administration information, and prescription coordination in which physicians’ prescription instructions are sent to the infusion and syringe pumps, we are helping to standardize and improve the efficiency of drug prescriptions and administration while making treatments safer.

Note: The regulatory approval status and availability of these products differ by country or region.

Outpatient Chemotherapy Solutions

Drugs used to treat cancer also impact healthy cells. Measures to address this challenge are needed not only for patients but also for healthcare professionals. In chemotherapy rooms, drugs must be administered safely, but treatment time for outpatients must also be made more efficient. We contribute to the medical safety and operational efficiency of cancer drug treatments with closed system drug transfer devices (CSTDs), indwelling needles for reliable dwelling, and operational support systems for drug treatment operations.

Note: The regulatory approval status and availability of these products differ by country or region.

Infection Control Solutions

Terumo puts together comprehensive combinations of various measures in order to prevent infections within medical institutions, such as establishing infrastructure, building infection control systems, thoroughly implementing and educating about them, and rolling out new products. Our aim is to deliver the solutions needed in medical settings by understanding and familiarizing ourselves with efforts taking place there, to be able to provide safe, reassuring healthcare support from the perspectives of patients and healthcare professionals.

Note: The regulatory approval status and availability of these products differ by country or region.

Women’s Health Solutions

Along with changes in women’s lifestyles in recent years, there have been greater needs for medical care tailored to the desires and values of each individual patient to address health problems particular to women. We will offer solutions that can expand the options for treatments and make minimally invasive surgeries easier to perform at even more medical facilities.

Note: The regulatory approval status and availability of these products differ by country or region.

Falloposcopic tuboplasty system

Single-Use Operative Hysteroscopy

Renal Care Solutions

Patients with chronic kidney failure need dialysis treatment that removes unwanted waste products and liquid from the body. Dialysis treatment options include hemodialysis (HD), in which a patient goes to a hospital three or so times a week, and peritoneal dialysis (PD), in which a patient can receive treatment at home or at work.
Terumo promotes peritoneal dialysis, which allows more freedom of lifestyle for patients. By providing instruments with greater ease of use and infection-prevention measures, we make peritoneal dialysis simpler and safer for the increasing number of aged PD patients. In addition, we are developing dialysate aimed at reducing a patient's physical burden and leveraging digital transformation (DX), among other efforts geared toward healthcare that is more patient-friendly—what we call "yasashii" healthcare.

Note: The regulatory approval status and availability of these products differ by country or region.

What is Peritoneal Dialysis (PD)?

PD is a treatment method in which waste products and liquids are removed from the blood by injecting and retaining dialysis fluid inside the abdominal cavity and the peritoneal membranes that surround the organs located there. The treatment requires a catheter to be implanted in the abdomen to enable injection and removal of dialysis fluid, and thereafter dialysis fluid is exchanged multiple times (once every 4-12 hours) daily. CAPD^*1, which enables the patient to exchange their own dialysis fluid, and APD^*2, an instrument which automatically exchanges dialysis fluid, are available. The method most suitable to the patient is selected according to their condition and lifestyle.

*1
Continuous Ambulatory Peritoneal Dialysis
*2
Automated Peritoneal Dialysis

Discharge of waste products and liquid