Professor Igor M. Samokhvalov: scientist, teacher, worker and military field surgeon (on the 70th anniversary of his birth)

Cover Page


Cite item

Full Text

Open Access Open Access
Restricted Access Access granted
Restricted Access Subscription or Fee Access

Abstract

July 5, 2024 marked the 70th anniversary of the famous military surgeon, Honored Doctor of the Russian Federation, former Chief Surgeon of the Ministry of Defense and head of the Department of Military Field Surgery of the Military Medical Academy named after S.M. Kirov, corresponding member and honorary Doctor of the Military Medical Academy named after S.M. Kirov, Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor, retired Colonel of the medical service Igor M. Samokhvalov. After graduating from the Academy, I.M. Samokhvalov served in the Airborne Troops as a military doctor, then as a surgeon of a separate medical battalion. In 1981, I.M. Samokhvalov entered the adjunct course at the Department of Military Field Surgery and successfully defended his thesis for the degree of Candidate of Medical Sciences on traumatic disease in limb injuries. I.M. Samokhvalov — a participant in combat operations in Afghanistan (1980, 1987–1988) and in the North Caucasus (1994–1995). He provided assistance to victims of the earthquake in Armenia in 1988. The generalization of the experience gained was framed in the form of a doctoral dissertation on combat trauma of blood vessels. In 2007, I.M. Samokhvalov was appointed head of the Department of Military Field Surgery, then from 2010 to 2022 he was elected head of this department. As Chief Surgeon of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, in the difficult conditions of the reduction of the Armed Forces, he carried out work to improve the quality of surgical care. Professor I.M. Samokhvalov is one of the country’s leading specialists in military field surgery, polytrauma surgery, and angiotraumatology. He developed the concept of optimizing the provision of surgical care to the wounded and the tactics of “damage control” in a hybrid war, on the basis of which the current guidelines for military field surgery were prepared. He led the creation of a line of modern domestic individual means of providing assistance to the wounded. He proposed the concept of temporary intracavitary hemostasis in abdominal injuries with ongoing intra-abdominal bleeding. Professor I.M. Samokhvalov has established a school of military field surgeons, 11 doctors and 26 candidates of medical sciences have been trained. Since 2022, Igor M. continues to work at his native department as a professor and is (concurrently) a leading researcher at the Department of Combined Injuries of the St. Petersburg Scientific Research Institute of Emergency Medicine named after I.I. Janelidze.

Full Text

Restricted Access

About the authors

Vadim I. Badalov

Kirov Military Medical Academy

Email: vadim_badalov@mail.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-8461-2252
SPIN-code: 9314-5608
Scopus Author ID: 6504224287
ResearcherId: V-1487-2017

MD, Dr. Sci. (Med.), professor

Russian Federation, Saint Petersburg

Nikolay A. Tynyankin

Kirov Military Medical Academy

Email: ntyniankin@mail.ru
ORCID iD: 0009-0007-1141-5497
SPIN-code: 1030-7109

MD, Cand. Sci. (Med.), associate professor

Russian Federation, Saint Petersburg

Pyotr P. Lyashedko

Kirov Military Medical Academy

Author for correspondence.
Email: vmeda-nio@mil.ru
ORCID iD: 0009-0009-8026-6055
SPIN-code: 4761-3647

MD, Cand. Sci. (Med.), associate professor

Russian Federation, Saint Petersburg

Sergey L. Bechik

Kirov Military Medical Academy

Email: bechik.spbsl@mail.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0003-0482-7446
SPIN-code: 5374-4350

MD, Cand. Sci. (Med.), associate professor

Russian Federation, Saint Petersburg

References

  1. Samokhvalov IM. Diary of a young military surgeon, Kabul, October 1980. Almanac of memoirs of war and labor veterans. Collection N 13. 1999. P. 185–193. (In Russ.)
  2. Samokhvalov IM, Tynyankin NA, Matveev SA, et al. Outstanding domestic military surface surgeon professor illya ivanovich deryabin (on the 100th anniversary of birth) Bulletin of the National Medical and Surgical Center named after N.I. Pirogov. 2020;15(2):187–192. EDN: VIJKBY doi: 10.25881/BPNMSC.2020.53.42.033
  3. Samokhvalov IM, Reva VA, Ulchenko VYu. Professor Vadim Alekseevich Kornilov (1937–1993) — one of the founders of the doctrine of vascular injury. Bulletin of Surgery. 2014;173(2):105–111. (In Russ.)
  4. Samokhvalov IM. Honorary Doctor of the Russian Military Medical Academy Yeryukhin Igor Alexandrovich, editor P.N. Zubarev. Saint Petersburg: MMA; 2018. 172 p. (In Russ.)
  5. Yeryukhin IA, Zubarev PN, Khrupkin VI, et al. Organization and maintenance of surgical care. The experience of medical support for troops in Afghanistan 1979–1989. Vol. 2: Organization and scope of surgical care for the wounded, editors I.A. Yeryukhin, V.I. Brilkin. Moscow: MMCH named after academician NN Burdenko; 2002: 14–67. (In Russ.)
  6. Samokhvalov IM. Features of treatment of gunshot and mine-explosive injury of the vascular bed. Vascular surgery: a national guideline. Short edition, editors V.S. Savelyev, A.I. Kiriyenko. Moscow: GEOTAR-Media; 2014:242–256. (In Russ.)
  7. Military field surgery of local wars and armed conflicts: a guide for doctors, editors E.K. Gumanenko, I.M. Samokhvalov. Moscow: GEOTAR-Media; 2011. 672 p. (In Russ.)
  8. The experience of medical support for troops in the internal armed conflict on the territory of the North Caucasus region of the Russian Federation in 1994–1996 and 1999–2002: in 3 volumes / edited by AYa Fisun. Vol. II: Organization of surgical care, editors N.A. Efimenko, E.K. Gumanenko, I.M. Samokhvalov. Rostov-on-Don: RostSMU; 2015. 412 p. (In Russ.)
  9. Samokhvalov IM, Reva VA, Fomin NF, et al. The principle of separation in the training of military field surgeons and practical implementation. Military Medical Journal. 2020;341(8):4–24. EDN: JCOXKI (In Russ.)
  10. Samokhvalov IM, Shchegolev AV, Gavrilin SV, et al. Anaesthesiological and reanimatological aid to victims with polytrauma: modern problems and ways of their solution. St. Petersburg: InformMed; 2013. 144 p. EDN: WDWVKV (In Russ.)
  11. Military field surgery, editor I.M. Samokhvalov. Saint Petersburg: МMA. 2021. 496 p. (In Russ.)
  12. Samokhvalov IM. Delivery of surgical services for wounded in modern armed conflicts: surgical services at the different stages of medical evauaton (report 1). Military Medical Journal. 2012;333(12): 4–11. EDN: RPBIPD (In Russ.)
  13. Practical guide to Damage Control 2.0, editors I.M. Samokhvalov, A.V. Goncharova, V.A. Reva. 2nd ed. Saint Petersburg: R-Kopi; 2020. 420 p. (In Russ.)
  14. Samokhvalov IM, Golovko KP, Chuprina AP, et al. The problem of eliminating open and intense pneumothorax at the advanced stages of medical evacuation and ways to solve it. Military Medical Journal. 2020;341(3):23–32. EDN: JYPURM (In Russ.)
  15. Samokhvalov IM, Golovko KP, Pichugin AA, Denisenko VV. Usage of the temporary intraabdominal hemostasis method in abdominal trauma. Biomedical and socio-psychological problems of safety in emergency situations. 2010;(4):32–38. EDN: QYKMWF (In Russ.)
  16. Military field surgery: textbook, editors I.M. Samokhvalov, V.I. Badalov. Moscow: GEOTAR-Media; 2023. 568 p. (In Russ.)
  17. Military field surgery: national guidelines, editor I.M. Samokhvalov. 2nd ed., reprint. and an additional one. Moscow: GEOTAR-Media; 2024. 1048 p. (In Russ.)
  18. Samokhvalov IM, Kryukov EV, Markevich VYu, et al. Military field surgery in 2031. Military Medical Journal. 2021;342(9):4–11. EDN: JWTNSB doi: 10.52424/00269050_2021_342_9_04 (In Russ.)
  19. Samokhvalov IM, Kryukov EV, Markevich VYu, et al. Ten surgical lessons of the initial stage of a military operation. Military Medical Journal. 2023;344(4):4–10. EDN: DSYIAP doi: 10.52424/00269050_2023_344_4_4 (In Russ.)
  20. Wounds with non-lethal kinetic weapons: a guide for doctors, editors V.E. Parfenov, I.M. Samokhvalov. Saint Petersburg: ALBI-SPb; 2013. 224 p. (In Russ.)
  21. Samokhvalov IM, Goncharov AV, Suvorov VV, Reva VA. eatures of diagnostic and therapeutic measures in gunshot and mine-explosive trauma of the abdomen. Abdominal surgery: national manual. Brief edition, editors I.I. Zatevakhin, A.I. Kiriyenko, V.A. Kubyshkin. Moscow: GEOTAR-Media; 2016. P. 115–136. (In Russ.)
  22. Samokhvalov IM, Tyniankin NA, Reva VA, Rasmussen TE. The military surgical legacy of Vladimir Oppel (1872–1932). J. Trauma Acute Care Surg. 2013;74(4):1178–1181. doi: 10.1097/TA.0b013e3182858407
  23. Samokhvalov IM, Kholikov IV, Goncharov AV, et al. Surgical lessons learned from Armed conflict in Afghanistan (1979–1989) and the Caucasus (1994–2002, 2008). International Review of the Armed Forces Medical Services. 2014;87(4):79–85.
  24. Samokhvalov IM, Reva VA. Global perspectives on vascular trauma: Russia In: Rich’s Vascular Trauma, 4th Editon, editors T.E. Rasmussen, N.R.M. Tai. Elsevier; 2022:374–376. (In Russ.)

Supplementary files

Supplementary Files
Action
1. JATS XML
Download
2. Fig. 1. Igor M. Samokhvalov

Download (337KB)
Indexing metadata
3. Fig. 2. Presidium of the final conference of the circle of the military scientific society of cadets and students: Major General of the Medical Service Professor I.I. Deryabin, Major General of the Medical Service Professor M.V. Lushchitsky, Head of the Scientific Circle of the Department of Military Field Surgery I.M. Samokhvalov (1975)

Download (246KB)
Indexing metadata
4. Fig. 3. Graduate of the Military Medical Academy, Lieutenant of the Medical Service I.M. Samokhvalov (1977)

Download (166KB)
Indexing metadata
5. Fig. 4. The medical reinforcement group of airborne troops in a separate medical battalion, Kabul (1980). First from the left: Captain of the Medical Service V.I. Khrupkin (future professor and head of the State Institute for Advanced Training of Doctors of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation). Second from the left: Senior Lieutenant of the Medical Service I.M. Samokhvalov

Download (529KB)
Indexing metadata
6. Fig. 5. Head of the Soviet delegation at the International Advanced Training Courses for Young Military Doctors Professor Yu.N. Shanin and Associate Professor I.M. Samokhvalov (Finland, 1983)

Download (379KB)
Indexing metadata
7. Fig. 6. Major of the Medical Service I.M. Samokhvalov during the evacuation of a wounded man to the Kabul Hospital (Afghanistan, 1987)

Download (296KB)
Indexing metadata
8. Fig. 7. As a teacher of the Department of Military Field Surgery, I.M. Samokhvalov (right) performs a thoracotomy in the Bagram Medical Hospital. The first assistant is a leading surgeon of a separate medical battalion, S.F. Bagnenko, a future academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences and rector of the First St. Petersburg Medical University named after Academician I.P. Pavlov (Afghanistan, 1987)

Download (299KB)
Indexing metadata
9. Fig. 8. Members of the Russian delegation to the 47th World Surgical Congress: P.G. Bryusov, I.M. Samokhvalov, A.N. Petrov (Switzerland, 2017)

Download (568KB)
Indexing metadata
10. Fig. 9. First specialized medical reinforcement group of the Military Medical Academy in the military hospital of Vladikavkaz. On the far right is I.M. Samokhvalov, the head of the group and lecturer of the Department of Military Field Surgery (1994)

Download (439KB)
Indexing metadata
11. Fig. 10. Staff of the Department of Military Field Surgery (2007)

Download (895KB)
Indexing metadata
12. Fig. 11. Head of the Main Military Medical Department, Major General of the Medical Service, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences A.Ya. Fisun and Head of the Department, Professor I.M. Samokhvalov at the grand opening of the clinic of military field surgery after reconstruction (2015)

Download (591KB)
Indexing metadata
13. Fig. 12. I.M. Samokhvalov’s report at the International Conference on Military Medicine and Disaster Medicine DIMIMED (Germany, 2014)

Download (511KB)
Indexing metadata
14. Fig. 13. Members of the Russian delegation at the First Congress of the Ambroise Pare International Forum of Military Surgeons: P.G. Bryusov, I.M. Samokhvalov, A.A. Zavrazhnov, and V.A. Reva (Azerbaijan, 2018)

Download (523KB)
Indexing metadata
15. Fig. 14. Grand opening of the restored tomb of the founder of the department, Professor V.A. Oppel, at the theological cemetery

Download (1MB)
Indexing metadata
16. Fig. 15. Professors I.M. Samokhvalov and V.I. Badalov at the anniversary scientific conference with former employees of the department — chief surgeons of multidisciplinary hospitals in Moscow and St. Petersburg (on the right: A.A. Pronchenko and A.B. Singaevsky; on the left: V.B. Kozhevnikov)

Download (868KB)
Indexing metadata
17. Fig. 16. Solemn celebration of the newly elected honorary doctors of the Russian Military Medical Academy: V.E. Parfenov, I.V. Sinopalnikov, and I.M. Samokhvalov (2019)

Download (715KB)
Indexing metadata

Copyright (c) Eco-Vector


СМИ зарегистрировано Федеральной службой по надзору в сфере связи, информационных технологий и массовых коммуникаций (Роскомнадзор).
Регистрационный номер и дата принятия решения о регистрации СМИ: серия ПИ № ФС 77 - 77762 от 10.02.2020.


This website uses cookies

You consent to our cookies if you continue to use our website.

About Cookies