Today, the Vishnevsky Institute is a leading research center and a diversified institution, which is in the arsenal of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences. And the school of surgeons, which A. V. Vishnevsky, academician of the USSR Academy of Medical Sciences created so carefully and painstakingly throughout his life, is rightly considered the pride of not only Russian, but also world surgery.
The origins of everything
It all began in the harsh post-war years, namely in the victorious 1945, when there were many wounded and disabled people whose lives and fate were crippled by the war. First of all, they all needed surgical help, which included the severity of their condition. It was necessary to create a truly advanced center and with it the most powerful school of surgeons in the world that would be able to cope with any problem.
For such an institute, famous specialists in their field were required. Until 1947, it was led by Mikhail Nikiforovich Akhutin, the greatest surgeon of the twentieth century, Sergei Sergeyevich Yudin, as well as Boris Vasilievich Petrovsky. After them, Professor Alexander Vasilievich Vishnevsky, who headed the institute for a long time, took the helm of the created institution. From 1976 to 1988, the head of the flagship of domestic surgery was one of the many students of Vishnevsky - academician of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, professor Kuzin Mikhail Ilyich. He was replaced by Vladimir Dmitrievich Fedorov, who headed the institution until 2010. His leadership was not for the most peaceful years in the country and the world as a whole, but this did not prevent the institute from holding the mark.
What can they do?
Institute of Surgery Vishnevsky can boast of high activity, because in the year about 3,500 patients regain health, and sometimes life, again. For doctors, surgery of the abdominal cavity, blood vessels, heart, chest is no problem.
Purulent surgery, which is fraught with dangerous complications, has no chance in front of specialists of the center. At a high level is the treatment of thermal lesions of varying degrees of complexity, as well as maxillofacial surgery. New methods of surgical intervention, which are used not only by the Vishnevsky Institute, are constantly being developed and implemented in practical healthcare. Reviews of grateful patients are the most expensive and high-quality assessment of the activities of a well-coordinated team of specialists.
Come all around
During the medical activities, as well as the development of the latest methods of surgical intervention, employees use the pathophysiological direction, which allows us to solve many tasks.
It was here that the world's first clinical and physiological studies were conducted regarding cardiac sounding, the use of cardiopulmonary bypass, mechanical ventilation, phonocardiography, and ballistics. We studied the mechanics of respiration, gas exchange in the lungs. And how much medical equipment is developed here, it’s just hard to imagine! The Wisniewski Institute is rightfully proud of its research and development.
Vishnevsky could do anything
The employees are also proud that their institution is named after one of the prominent scientists of Russian surgery, academician Alexander Vasilievich Vishnevsky. It was he, together with his son Alexander, who created his own method of anesthesia, based on the idea of a trophic function that the nervous system can perform. In practice, the theoretically and practically proven concept of weak stimulation by an electrical impulse of the nervous system is also used. A technique based on this fact is used in the treatment of diseases. In the world everyone knows the work aimed at the use of oil antiseptics and
novocaine blockades. These developments are widely used by the Vishnevsky Institute, and they are rightfully awarded the Rene Leriche Prize. The name of Alexander Vasilyevich Vishnevsky is closely related to the implementation of the world's first commissurotomy, performed under local anesthesia. This wonderful surgeon also performed the first open-heart surgery using a heart-lung
machine . He transplanted the most important organ of blood circulation to a person, and also developed and introduced into widespread practice a method of treating a disturbed heart rhythm with the help of electrical impulses.
Current state of affairs
The Vishnevsky Institute today is not only the largest research center, but also a medical institution in Russia.
The best specialists work here and consider it a great honor for themselves and a sign of recognition of their professional achievements. Numerous academics, professors, doctors and candidates of science daily direct all their knowledge and skills to save and restore people's health. But whatever their knowledge and skills, without the most modern equipment that the Vishnevsky Institute has in abundance, all efforts would be in vain.
There is always hope
Using advanced technology, even the most insidious disease can be recognized in the shortest possible time. The Vishnevsky Institute boasts both classical operations and interventions at the micro level.
In all areas of surgery, this scientific and medical center has established itself as the most advanced leader. About 24 thousand citizens from Russia and other countries come here so that their lost health will return the institute to them. Vishnevsky. Moscow, where the institution is located, is always glad to receive its guests so that they leave it with completely healthy people.