Pathophysiology of trauma and shock: directions of development and problems (on the centenary of the birth of Academician of the USSR Academy of Medical Sciences Kulagin V.K.)

The article presents the history of the formation and approval of scientific concepts of the pathophysiology of traumatic shock, the study of pathogenesis, and the definition of general approaches to its therapy. A significant contribution to the solution of this scientific problem was made by the Academician of the USSR Academy of Medical Sciences, Major General of the Medical Service Kulagin V.K. (1923–1982). His professional biography is closely connected with the Department of Pathophysiology of the Military Medical Academy. S.M.Kirov, where he worked as a teacher since 1955, then as a senior teacher, and in 1967 he was appointed its head. From 1980–1982 he headed the Scientific Research Institute of Military Medicine of the USSR Ministry of Defense. During the leadership of Kulagin V.K. at the Department of Pathophysiology, the main areas of scientific research were the study of the pathogenesis of traumatic shock and the experimental development of the foundations of its prevention and therapy. Today, military medicine continues to be interested in shock as a pathophysiological problem. Its further development can be successful only on a solid scientific foundation laid by the predecessors of today’s scientists, including Kulagin V.K.