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SURGICAL PROCEDURES IN THE FRANJA PARTISAN HOSPITAL 1944-1945
DUBRAVKO HABEK
orcid.org/0000-0003-1304-9279
; Croatian Catholic University in Zagreb, Faculty of Medicine, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
From the preserved operative protocol and personal notes of Dr. Franci Derganc, a war surgeon, an insight was obtained into the war surgery, surgical procedures, anesthesia procedures and death in the Slovenian Franja Partisan Hospital from September 23, 1944 until April 1945. A total of 255 surgical procedures were performed (incision and drainage, immobilization and extension, and revision of war wounds, 17 amputations, 4 craniotomies, 8 enucleations of the eye, 14 thoracocentesis and thoracotomy, 7 laparotomies with care of internal organ injuries, 12 arteriectomies and ligatures, 7 tooth extraction, 6 necrectomy, 4 osteotomy, 2 femoral osteosynthesis, 3 appendectomy, and other operations). Inhalation general anesthesia (Kelen/chloraethyl, ether, ether + Kelen), general intravenous pentothal, combined general intravenous with inhaled ether, and local infiltration novocaine anesthesia were used. The types of surgical procedures and anesthesia in war partisan hospitals during World War II were directly associated with surgeons who were able to perform complex operations from general and war surgery, and did not differ from the existing city hospitals, which directly affected hospital deaths.
Keywords
World War II; military surgery; partisan hospitals
Hrčak ID:
274022
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Publication date:
16.3.2022.
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