Abstract
The Nippon Medical School New Tokyo International Airport Clinic (Airport Clinic) was opened in 1992 as Japan's first 24-hour international airport clinic. To date, it has provided medical services to a total of 117, 953 patients. Of these, 85, 545 (72.5%) were airport employees, 28, 662 (24.3%) were passengers, and 3, 746 (3.2%) were others. Of the total, non-Japanese patients accounted for 8, 485 (7.2%). In the year to March 31, 2001, the Clinic treated an average of 43.9 cases per day.
The number of emergency patients was 2, 969 or 2.3% of the total, of whom 500 (0.4%) were non-Japanese. There were 47 deaths, with age ranging from 14 to 84 (average age 64.0). The ratio of males to females who died was 28: 19. Of the 47 deaths, 18 were non-Japanese. Pulmonary thromboembolism is considered to have played a role in 25 of the deaths.
Based on more than 8 years of airport clinical experience, we believe that a first-class international airport should have excellent medical facilities that can provide quality emergency medical services to travelers and disaster victims.
