Experience in treating combat trauma and surgical infection

The major topics of two scientific and practical conferences on combat trauma, surgical infection and sepsis held at the A.A.Vishnevsky Central Military Clinical Hospital were the evacuation of patients with combat trauma, wounds and mutilations, as well as their treatment, recovery and rehabilitation. Military doctors shared their clinical experience and achievements in the treatment of combat trauma, abdominal wounds, non-infectious complications of gunshot fractures, infectious complications and sepsis in combat surgical trauma, craniocerebral wounds, the use of vitreoretinal surgery methods, and reconstructive plastic surgeries. Military doctors discussed surgical tactics for gunshot and mine-explosive wounds to the heart, other organs and limbs, issues of removing foreign bodies from cavities and organs of the chest in case of gunshot and shrapnel wounds, and modern methods of surgical rehabilitation of patients. The presented reports were based on the analysis and generalization of combat experience gained by military doctors during a special military operation.