(Medical 24 Hours) Professor Eun-Young Jeong of Keimyung University Dongsan Medical Center, Receives ‘Best Oral Presentation Award’ from the Korean Hernia Society, etc.

Jeonbuk National University Hospital held the ’18th Infection Control Week Event’ in the corridor connecting the main building and the respiratory center to create a hospital free from infection.

This event, hosted by the Infection Control Center, included a variety of programs aimed at creating a hospital environment that was safe from infection, including: a hand hygiene campaign; promotion of how to wear personal protective equipment and prevent stab wounds; a photo zone promoting proper handwashing; and posting of educational materials on tuberculosis/latent tuberculosis.

This event, which was held for staff and visitors, included a hand hygiene campaign to educate them on the correct hand hygiene method (6 steps) using fluorescent lotion, showed them the correct way to wear personal protective equipment by transmission route through photos, and presented an True or False quiz on tuberculosis and latent tuberculosis.

In addition, a photo wall with information about proper hand washing was installed and Polaroid commemorative photos were taken, which drew a positive response from participants.

Bundang Seoul National University Hospital will hold the ‘2024 Gyeonggi Region Responsible Medical Institution New Personnel Capacity Building Training’ for two days starting on the 17th at the Healthcare Innovation Park.

This training was organized by Bundang Seoul National University Hospital, a regional responsible medical institution designated by the Ministry of Health and Welfare in Gyeonggi Province, to increase understanding of the public health care cooperation system of regional responsible medical institutions in the province.

The training targets are practitioners at additional regional responsible medical institutions designated in 2024, such as Hallym University Sacred Heart Hospital, and newly appointed personnel at existing regional responsible medical institutions, such as hospitals under the Gyeonggi Provincial Medical Center (Suwon, Paju, Icheon, Pocheon, etc.).

The training will proceed in the following order: Understanding public health care Cooperation and linkage with Gyeonggi-do public health care specialized resource organizations Implementation of public health care cooperation system projects. The heads of various public health care projects being carried out in actual medical sites in the Gyeonggi region, such as the Gyeonggi Regional Cerebrovascular Disease Center, High-Risk Maternal-Newborn Integrated Treatment Center, and Gyeonggi Southern Region Disabled Health Care Center, will directly introduce the current status and direction of cooperation projects.

After two days of training, business practitioners from each institution will receive customized mentoring in various fields, including community linkage for discharged patients cooperation in critical emergency transfer and treatment infection and patient safety management, from the regional responsibility business team at Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, and will also have a separate performance sharing presentation.

Korea University Medical Center is the first hospital in the world to implement the so-called ‘PET Chemical Regeneration’ project, which collects discarded uniforms and recycles them into new work clothes.

This project was created by Korea University Medical Center as part of its sustainable management to raise awareness of the seriousness of the destruction of the ecosystem caused by plastic and to improve the problems caused by clothing waste.

Accordingly, Korea University Medical Center will collect unused work uniforms from all of its affiliated hospitals, including Anam, Guro, and Ansan Hospitals, from July 15 to 23. The uniforms in question are all nine types of daily clothing made of 90% or more polyester, including nurse uniforms, assistant uniforms, surgical uniforms, and general office uniforms.

The main schedule is to first collect PET material uniforms that are discarded as waste clothing from each hospital in July, then send the work uniforms to Kolon for a chemical regeneration process, and then produce new single-material (monomaterial) uniforms by December.

To promote the business, Korea University Medical Center is collaborating with Kolon Future Technology Institute, which is recognized in the global market for its research and development in the eco-friendly business sector. Kolon Future Technology Institute is implementing the ‘PET chemical regeneration’ technology that decomposes polyester-based clothing received from Korea University Hospital into terephthalic acid (TPA) and ethylene glycol (EG).

Afterwards, Kolon Industries FnC will take charge of the process of weaving threads into fabrics, as well as processing and sewing, to create ‘eco-friendly future hospital uniforms.’ Kolon has established itself as an eco-friendly fashion brand by launching the upcycling-based fashion brand ‘RE;CODE.’

There have been cases of fashion recycling where discarded clothing is reprocessed and made into new products, but this project is different because it includes a chemical regeneration process that turns the collected clothing into pure raw materials. After that, all the processes of making clothing, including ‘spinning’ to extract thread and ‘weaving’ to weave fabric from thread, are performed consistently from beginning to end.

The hospital uniform chemical recycling project, in which Korea University Medical Center collaborates with Kolon, is the world’s first project for a medical institution, and has never been reported to have been carried out by any hospital in Korea or abroad. Korea University Medical Center named this project the “Donation & Take with the Earth” campaign, considering that it can reduce the amount of petroleum raw materials used by the amount of new hospital uniforms being reborn, and reduce greenhouse gases generated when clothing waste is incinerated and landfilled.

On July 12, Kyung Hee University Dental Hospital (Director Hwang Eui-hwan) held a signing ceremony for the introduction of the ‘Tera Harz Smart Robot’, a shape memory transparent aligner automation design system, with Graphy, a company specializing in 3D printing materials, in the 6th floor conference room of the dental hospital.

Graphisa’s Tera Harz smart robot system is the world’s first solution that automates the entire process from design to production of shape memory transparent aligners using an automated robot. This system can precisely and conveniently produce transparent aligners without the help of medical staff or technical support personnel, and it has the special feature that the patient can actually wear the transparent aligners within 1-2 days after confirming the patient’s oral information.

Kyung Hee University Dental Hospital Orthodontics Department and Bio Rapid Orthodontics Center are operating Graphy’s transparent orthodontic manufacturing system, but with the introduction of this transparent orthodontic automation robot system, more precise and efficient transparent orthodontic device manufacturing is now possible for all treatment centers of the dental hospital’s orthodontic department. In addition, since it is possible to eliminate fatigue and environmental influences that may occur during the device manufacturing process for medical staff and dental technicians, it has become possible to proactively respond to the paradigm shift to ‘digital dentistry’.

Ilsan Hospital of National Health Insurance Service will hold the 2024 Gyeonggi Northern Elderly Long-Term Care Facility Infectious Disease Prevention and Management Training at the main auditorium at 2:00 PM on July 26.

This training, co-hosted by the Gyeonggi Northern Regional Responsible Medical Institution (National Health Insurance Service Ilsan Hospital, Gyeonggi Provincial Medical Center Uijeongbu, Paju, and Pocheon Hospitals), was designed to enhance infection control awareness and infection control capacity among managers and workers at local long-term care facilities for the elderly.

In this training, Ilsan Hospital Infection Control Department Nurse Heo Jeong-hee will provide training on infection control in long-term care facilities for the elderly – infection control using standard precautions (multi-drug resistant bacteria, scabies, etc.).

In addition, Ilsan Hospital Rehabilitation Center Director Kang Kyeong-i will speak on the topic of musculoskeletal disease prevention, introducing information on musculoskeletal diseases that can occur in the elderly, and exercise methods.

This training is for long-term care facility directors and infection control managers in northern Gyeonggi Province. Participation is possible through advance registration at each of the responsible medical institutions in northern Gyeonggi Province (Ilsan Hospital, Gyeonggi Provincial Medical Center Uijeongbu, Paju, and Pocheon Hospitals).

Meanwhile, those who complete this training will be issued a certificate of completion from the Gyeonggi-do Regional Responsible Medical Institution Training Center.

On the 12th, Daemokdong Hospital signed a business agreement with Datacook Co., Ltd. and the Advanced Technology Research Institute in Room 901 of MCC Building B (Annex) for ‘Establishment of an AI-based digital healthcare platform for pregnant women.’

The signing ceremony was attended by Director Kim Han-soo of the Ewha Mokdong Hospital, Director Kim Young-joo of the Femtech Research Institute, Director Lee Hyang-un of the Ewha Life Science Research Institute, Director Kim Geon-ha of the Convergence Medicine Research Institute, DataCook CEO Kang Su-hyung, Director Park Ji-young, and Strategic Planning Director Park Seong-geon, as well as personnel from each institution, including Director Yoo Young-don of the Advanced Institute of Technology, Managing Director Lee Jeong-seung, and Senior Researcher Lim Chae-young.

According to the business agreement, the three parties will cooperate in ▲establishing a digital healthcare platform for pregnant women using AI technology and ▲R&D and technology commercialization to optimize pregnant women’s health management through collection and analysis of pregnant women’s biometric data.

Recently designated by the Ministry of Health and Welfare for the ‘Growth Disease Validation Center Construction Project’, the Mokdong Hospital of the Seoul National University Bundang will be in charge of clinical validation of bio-data, DataCook will be building a digital healthcare platform capable of collecting and analyzing bio-data, and the Advanced Technology Research Institute will be in charge of collecting and analyzing bio-data.

Professor Eun-Young Jeong (Pediatric Surgery) of Keimyung University Dongsan Hospital won the ‘Best Oral Presentation Award’ for her presentation on ‘Pain Relief Effect through Transverse Abdominal Plane Block after Laparoscopic Inguinal Hernia Surgery Using Upward Score Matching’ at the 18th Korean Hernia Society and 2024 International Symposium held at The K Hotel in Seoul from July 5 to 6.

At an academic event where domestic and international hernia experts gathered to share the latest research and treatment methods, Professor Jeong’s award is evaluated as having contributed to raising the status of the domestic and international hernia treatment field.

This study was conducted last year with research funds from the Medical Science Research Institute of Keimyung University Dongsan Medical Center, and presented the experience of significantly reducing postoperative pain scores through transverse abdominis plane block after laparoscopic surgery for adult inguinal hernia.

In particular, four medical students from Keimyung University (Lee Ki-min, Moon Sang-hyeok, Kim Na-kyung, and Baek Da-eun) participated as student researchers and conducted joint research with the Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine at Dongsan Hospital and the Department of Statistics at Keimyung University. This award provided an opportunity to once again prove the outstanding medical technology of Dongsan Hospital.

The Korean Medical Association has taken strong legal action to eradicate illegal medical practices and defamation of Korean medicine that have not yet been completely eradicated.

The ‘Clean-K Special Committee’ launched under the 45th Executive Committee of the Korean Medical Association recently announced that it has filed a criminal complaint and requested a broadcast review regarding defamation of Korean medicine (Hanyang medicine) that has been committed through Internet cafes, YouTube, and SNS.

Here are some major examples: △Writing false information through a mom’s cafe, as if postpartum herbal medicine is bad for the liver, and promoting and selling their own products; △Spreading false information and trivializing herbal medicine with lines such as “I gained weight because I took the wrong herbal medicine” on a YouTube channel; △Selling health foods while disparaging herbal medicine through social media, such as “Are you still giving your child herbal medicine to get rid of rhinitis?” and “I made this with the intention of being reported to a oriental medicine clinic”; △Posting disparaging content about oriental medicine such as “If children go on a herbal medicine diet, it’s a big problem” on social media, and promoting health foods.

In particular, a Western doctor who posted a malicious disparaging remark on SNS saying, “I’m angry at the government for maintaining the Oriental medicine doctor system,” was reported to the local public health center for violating the Medical Act, and the post was immediately deleted.

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