CYCLE OF OUTSIDE TRAINING SEMINARS «MODERN APPROACHES TO THE TREATMENT OF PATIENTS WITH GUNSHORT INJURY»

In the period from November 3 to December 21, employees of the Republican Center for the Treatment of Gunshot Wounds and Mine-Explosive Injuries (hereinafter referred to as RC) conducted a series of field seminars «Modern approaches to the treatment of patients with gunshot injuries» in all regional centers of the Republic of Belarus. RC Representatives: head of the RC, leading surgeon of the medical unit, doctor of medical sciences, associate professor, colonel of the medical service Aleksey Petrovich Trukhan, chief freelance traumatologist of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Belarus, head of the 2nd traumatology department, lieutenant colonel of the medical service Konstantin Andreevich Fiodorov, senior resident of the 1st surgical department doctor thoracic surgeon, major of medical service Maksim Viktorovich Kisliuk. The agenda of the seminar included the following topics: primary debridement, gunshot trauma to the extremities, gunshot trauma to the chest, gunshot trauma to the abdomen, general approaches to the treatment of patients with explosive wounds, organizational principles of work when a large number of patients with gunshot wounds are admitted. The structure of the seminar consisted of registration, a welcoming speech and six lectures on the above topics. In total, the republican seminar was attended by more than 500 doctors of various specialties, most of whom are surgical specialists. The topics of the lectures aroused keen interest among the students, the lectures were accompanied by an active discussion. Most of the questions were of an organizational nature. The details of the choice of a surgical approach in a given situation in patients with gunshot wounds and explosive injuries were also discussed. The answers to almost all questions are presented in the clinical protocols developed by the RC staff: treatment of patients with gunshot wounds in hospitals, treatment of patients with gunshot fractures of the bones of the skeleton in hospitals, diagnosis and treatment of patients (adults and children) with gunshot wounds of the chest and abdomen. These protocols, as well as a number of manuals on the subject of gunshot wounds, were provided to students in electronic form by the employees of the RC.

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