Today, the N.V. Sklifosovsky Research Institute of Emergency Ambulance is the largest multidisciplinary scientific and practical center for emergency medical care in Russia. This is one of the most famous hospitals in our country. She has a glorious past and a great future.
History of Emergency Ambulance Institute
The Sklifosovsky Institute was founded in 1803 by the philanthropist and philanthropist Count N. P. Sheremetyev. At first, the hospital was called the Hospice. There were 50 people with various ailments and 25 orphans in it. This was the very first institution in which they provided medical care to the poorest segments of the population, and also fed the homeless and orphans. Then, during the war of 1812, hospitals were located here - first the French army, and later the Russian. Until 1922, the Hospice House served as a hospital for the wounded soldiers of the Russo-Turkish, and then Russo-Japanese wars. Later, the Institute of Emergency Ambulance was founded on the basis of the Sheremetyevo Hospital (the second name of the Host Country), which since 1929 has been named after the great Russian surgeon Nikolai Vasilyevich Sklifosovsky. Talented doctors continued the work of this great man, and an emergency surgical service was created on the basis of a military hospital. Also, the Sklifosovsky Institute became a pioneer in the development and construction of a state system for the provision of ambulance for various injuries and poisonings. And for the first time, employees of the institute raised the question of the urgent need for preventive work to prevent domestic injuries and industrial accidents .
Biography of N.V. Sklifosovsky
It is impossible not to say a few words about the outstanding medical figure - Nikolai Vasilyevich Sklifosovsky. The great scientist, professor, was born on a farm near the city of Dubossary (Transnistria), March 25, 1836. He received his secondary education in Odessa at the gymnasium, and then, in 1859, he graduated from Moscow University, faculty of medicine. He received his doctorate in Kharkov four years after defending his dissertation "On a circulatory tumor." For a long time he worked in clinics in Germany. During the Prussian war he worked in a hospital in a dressing room. After returning to Russia, he published many works on medicine. He headed the Department of Surgery at the Imperial Medical and Surgical Academy. He was an innovator in conducting very complex operations, such as cutting goiter and many others that no one had done before. Participation in several military campaigns gave impetus to the writing of many medical works on the provision of emergency surgical care to the wounded. The last years of the surgeon were overshadowed by a serious illness, but nevertheless he completely surrendered to his favorite work until the last days.
Institute today
Today, the Sklifosovsky Institute (Moscow), like two centuries ago, annually saves thousands of human lives. All departments of the hospital provide round-the-clock assistance absolutely free. But, in addition to providing emergency medical care, the Sklifosovsky Institute is engaged in scientific activities, training and consulting specialists in the field of emergency care. It employs more than 800 researchers, two academicians, 37 professors, as well as candidates and doctors of medical sciences. Over the year, specialists carry out more than 20 thousand complex operations. Research in the field of medicine is carried out in different directions. Patents for various inventions are issued annually, scientific papers and rationalization proposals are published. Medical work, as mentioned above, is absolutely free. Those who have arrived at the Sklifosovsky Institute receive emergency medical care in the following areas:
- critical care resuscitation;
- injuries sustained when falling from a great height;
- gunshot wounds;
- mechanical damage in car accidents;
- thermal injuries;
- damage to the brain and spinal cord;
- emergency surgery;
- acute complications of coronary heart disease;
- acute poisoning and endotoxemia;
- hyperbaric oxygenation;
- crisis conditions and acute psychosomatic disorders;
- rehabilitation treatment.
The institute organized a service for the preservation of tissues and blood.
Sklifosovsky Institute: Laboratory
This institute has a large laboratory base, which diagnoses emergency conditions. Using the latest medical equipment, biochemical, clinical, immunological, microbiological, rheological and toxicological analyzes are carried out. There is a laboratory for examining HIV-infected patients. You can also anonymously test for HIV infection.
Conclusion
The staff of the institute was repeatedly noted with high awards for invaluable work and for saving lives. The Sklifosovsky Institute always played a prominent role in the development of domestic medicine! Institutional address: Moscow, Bolshaya Sukharevskaya Ploshchad, house number 3.