Kazuyoshi Hirota, the Vice-Dean of Hirosaki University the Graduate School of Medicine, the Professor and Chairman of the Department of Anesthesiology in the medical school visited DICP from Sep. 5th to 7th, 2017. Prof. XU Guowang of the Laboratory of Biotechnology and Prof. LI Haiyang the Department of Instrumentation and Analytical Chemistry were in charge of his visit together.
Prof. Hirota gave a lecture titled “Efficacy of Expiratory Anesthetic and VOCs Monitoring and Metabolomics in Future of Anesthesia Field” in the morning of Sep. 6th to describe the existing scientific problems to be solved urgently in precision anesthesia. He pointed out that in order to achieve personalized and accurate anesthesia, it is necessary to develop rapid detection techniques and equipment such as ion mobility spectrometry. And he also said necessity of protecting the functions of visceral organs and predicted the potential of metabolomics application in the perioperative period. He emphasized the importance of breath gas analysis.
He has more than 180 publications of original articles, review article and clinical reports being published in the English peer reviewed journals. He is a Fellow of Royal College of Anaesthetists elected (UK), the active member of Association of University Anesthesiologists (USA). (Text and Image by HOU Xiaoli)