MITSUAKI NISHIKIMI

Last Updated :2026/08/05

Affiliations, Positions
Crisis Medical Center, Associate Professor (Special Appointment)
E-mail
nishikimhiroshima-u.ac.jp
Self-introduction
He specializes in emergency and critical care medicine, with a research focus on multicenter collaborative studies and AI-driven medical research for patients with severe respiratory and circulatory failure requiring extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO). He leads the world's largest ECMO imaging database, the J-CARVE Registry, as well as the international EXTEND ARDS Study, involving 13 countries, and has published more than 50 peer-reviewed international articles as first or senior author.

Research Activities

Academic Papers

  1. Rhythm-specific association of epinephrine with outcomes in non-shockable cardiac arrest: a nationwide propensity-matched study, RESUSCITATION, 224, 202607
  2. Exploratory Study of Selective Brain Hypothermia Using Transnasal Evaporative Cooling Under Controlled Normothermia with an Endovascular Device, JOURNAL OF CARDIOVASCULAR DEVELOPMENT AND DISEASE, 13(3), 20260306
  3. Association between initial norepinephrine dose and minute by minute mean arterial pressure, CRITICAL CARE, 30(1), 20260226
  4. Impact of post-decannulation high fever on mortality in patients with severe ARDS treated with veno-venous ECMO: a multicenter retrospective study, JOURNAL OF INTENSIVE CARE, 14(1), 20260211
  5. Association Between Positive End-Expiratory Pressure at Venovenous Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation Initiation and Liberation Outcomes in Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome: A Multicenter Retrospective Study, CRITICAL CARE EXPLORATIONS, 8(2), 202602
  6. Association between hospital arrival time/day and mortality in pediatric patients with severe trauma: a nationwide retrospective observational study in Japan, INJURY-INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF THE CARE OF THE INJURED, 57(2), 202602
  7. Pulmonary Alveolar Proteinosis Complicated by Invasive Streptococcus pneumoniae Infection Requiring Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation: A Case Report, ACUTE MEDICINE & SURGERY, 13(1), 20251225
  8. Discrepancy in perceived appropriate and desired resuscitation durations between physicians and laypersons in cardiac arrest patients, JOURNAL OF INTENSIVE CARE, 14(1), 20251231
  9. Development and validation of the STeP score for predicting tracheostomy in patients with sepsis using a nationwide ICU database: a retrospective observational study, JOURNAL OF INTENSIVE CARE, 13(1), 20251114
  10. Pulse Steroid Therapy for Severe Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome: A Propensity Score-Matched Analysis, JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MEDICINE, 14(15), 20250806