electrosurgical knife, bipolar, bipolar with a sealing function, 4. Ultrasonic solidifying and incision apparatus, surgical endoscope system, Surgical robot, Microscope for surgery, Anesthetic machine, Respiratory apparatus, Biological information monitor, respiratory apparatus, Smoke exhausts apparatus, and artificial nose

Of 2,328 medical institutions that questionnaire was sent to, 230 facilities responded

Part I   Questionnaire

1. Outline of Questionnaire

Q1. How the operation rooms are located (one in each of the medical department, or common throughout the department in the field of medical care)

Q2.

1) Annual number of operations conducted (including endoscopic surgery) in FY2020

2) Increase and decrease of surgical operations for each medical care department and as a whole

Q3

1) Details of annual number of operations conducted (celiotomy, thoracotomy, craniotomy versus endoscopic surgery, rate by the department)for FY2020

2) The difference in trend when compared with FY2019

Q4. Evaluation of equipment by device, status of introduction, status of use, number of equipment possessed, the manufacturers, reasons of introductions, etc.)

1. Electrosurgical knife
2. Bipolar
3. Bipolar with a sealing function
4. Ultrasonic solidifying and incision apparatus
5. Surgical endoscope system
6. Surgical robot
7. Microscope for surgery
8. Anesthetic machine
9. Respiratory apparatus
10. Biological information monitor (only at surgical room)

Q5. Status of using disposable pencil for electrosurgical knife
1) Rate of disposed
2) Manufacturer

Q6. Status of adopting other surgical robots, and status of the awareness

Q7. Status of possessing and using smoke exhaust apparatus and artificial nose (only at surgical room)
1) Smoke exhausts apparatus
2) Artificial nose (only at surgical room)

Q8. Status of implementing surgical room solutions

Q9. Status of acceptance of COVID-19 patients

Q10. Opinions and requests to medical equipment usable at operating room

2. Cross Analysis
   1) Status of using endoscope by management style of hospitals
   2) Status of using disposable pencil for electrosurgical knife by management style of hospitals
   3) Whether or not accepting COVID-19 patients and Comparison of increase/decrease in number of surgical operations
   4) Whether or not accepting COVID-19 patients and Comparison of possessing smoke exhaust apparatus
   5) Whether or not accepting COVID-19 patients and Comparison of introduction by artificial nose manufacturer

Part2　Facility Profiles

Introduction of 230 facilities with spread pages