V.F.Voino-Yasenetskii - the leading surgeon of the Krasnoyarsk evacuation hospital No. 1515 during the Great Patriotic War

The article presents for the first time documents and information about the branch of the Central Archive of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation (military medical documents, St. Petersburg) about the work of V.F.Voyno-Yasenetsky: on his initiative, the hospital took not only general surgical patients, but also patients with chest injuries, neurosurgical injuries, those requiring plastic and vascular operations. According to the memoranda of the hospital chiefs, already in December 1941 the volume of surgical work reached a maximum. Working in Krasnoyarsk, Voyno-Yasenetsky continued to apply and improve new methods of anesthesia. According to the reports, spinal anesthesia was used in 10% of cases; operations on the skull, plastic and others were performed under local anesthesia, many operations on the lower extremities were performed under regional anesthesia. Leaving the hospital in 1944, V.F.Voyno-Yasenetsky left two pupils-surgeons who continued his work.

Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945, evacuation hospitals, treatment of gunshot wounds, late resections of gunshot wounds of joints, spinal anesthesia, V.F.Voyno-Yasenetsky in Krasnoyarsk