COMMENTS ON ARTICLES APPEARING IN THE OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF SURGERY EDITED BY THE MINISTRY OF HEALTH IN MOSCOW AND LENINGRAD

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 1, 2011
• Sequence Number: 638
• Publication Date: April 21, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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1. The joi:rnal "Vyestnik Khirurhii" (The Surgical News-Reporter) published every
two months, genera-11y giver the impression that it in aditeci in geaersl yracticI%
use for surgeons. The character of the articles ie more practical than
s cient,',fic ,
here are a few points of general interest:
>rr,. N. ?;. 81in.;v fro the State Institute of Completion of Physicieas sio7 in
LeningraI a?atT en ax.icle (journal #1, Volume 72, 1952) about the mec cs
of influence it blood transfusion. His standpoint is that the transfusion's
reaction is only thu feflectory effect from irritated central nervous system
and he does not recu,nize any chemical or biological prccessea in the body which
receive the blopd. From this view, discussing transfusion's reaction, he
complet..iy ignores Rh factor and does not even mention it as a biological factor
cf reaction. He also tries to prove that the biood groups are not highly
significant for blood transfusions. The transfusion's reactions which occur when the
wrong blood group is given are, in his opinion, not because of the wrong blood
group but because of the poor technic of the transfusion. In such case the poor
technic irritates too strongly the nervous system and therefore the reaction
taken place. When the nervous system will be depressed or paralyzed during the
transfusion, in his opinion, there is apparently no reaction. He illustrateIsthis
theory with experiments on orly one animal whenawith the wrong blood,grouplnovocain
was given intravenously. In this case he did nor observe any reaction. With the
human being, be illustrates also only one case when blood group A was given to a
patient with blood group 0 during the anesthesia (surgery) in amount of 300 cc.
He at--tac there was no _ tion but the patient had rlo- r&eh over the entire
body and hemoglobi.nuria (ienoglobin in urine) for at leak.. two days. In his
opinion, these symptoms .re probably nzt signs of tra.nf,f'seion'e reaction. What
are the signs of reaction in his opinion? He did not give any laboratory tests for
patients which could show any kidney or liver damages from this transfusion. He
did not especially recommend the '%se of wrong blood groups for patients but, in
his opinion, if the wrong blood pmoup must be given (he did not indicate any
reason for it), it could be donebrfonly a careful technic should be used. This
"careful technic" is a dropping method whee the patient receivesnot more
than 2 cc of wrong blood per one minute. r'.e does not mention any indication and
contra-indication for such a "new technic."
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nfu5 1. . Wbethet this kind of
Thearti? t y^Critd~becaune of ?hcrtage n lcod in USSR ox because it is
s _, _ 1. mbe
figure out fr?m Wl.s art~_
~ ?~ _ t.,? of :?i: ~~,. emii c+,rY or blood in mvi to
a., le e sheWSa vex^f poor iLnowir- c
medicine
Dr A. A. KsmP,-leg=her from she Stare Medical School in Svierd,crsk
di _c;. sea In the ?.ems j^ rnal the in.ication of
~lassenecs~ion c inhemorrhagic
of some nemorrbag'_c dices: He g- :.
1.:.s=e- nor the eignt.ficent iaroratory teetu for ?isenosis of hemorrhage. for baeeL only from Scwel, mot ,hnoe j intsi and rrthenskin,
bleed: .9 g
and en'arg?.i =?Vten, The laboratory diagnosis is made only from reports
?,. roc, Vh:: end differeroial and platelet coast. There is not any sign
r ,nr^r n-, lahrratc,.ry tect.c `o. uictinguiah the char?a cteT oorudisea
wit.h splencpst,,y are named by
., os a spl~re^t=my. He reports that,inisurgical
or 3d -re i:;.dtca se.
3-a'.~ ??iircr.=..; ?-tA
ric=n1 ,ul of the 'jaiLa: Sohn"- in S ieruiovsk in two years there were ten
spleneetomies p-rformed. The hospitals of medical a-hccle in the Soviet Union are
largest nFiving the beat specialists and rquipment)and
s:a in other hc:pltale splenectomies were performed in the same number - if
any at all.
ar;c a-,irle showi_ that the krcwledge of hemorrhagic diseases and indications
for spisnectomies b,y this autho_ are rehiod r_odern medicine for many years.
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6. Surgory in the SovieITlnion does not use any of modern antibiotics except
penicillin which 1.s given very carefully for example in amount from 100,000
rn 300,000, ani ve=;' rarely up to 300,000 units, even in cases of severe
generalized infec-inn Like peritonitis and others.
7. The ?:u:lfa dr?:ws used are meetly of old type. From the new sulfa preparations they
ase only salfsd:snimC.
in of ioing di iydro? and e t .. ptomYrin. eureomycin,
^,, T ' -c 0 not -uny si: terramycin,
calcronyret.in, g:ythromycin, or one typical antibiot?iss s.ich as bac.itracin, tieo-
polymyxin, f iracin etc .,etc. In my opinino, the top medical men about
t
Jnion snow about A'' modern antibiotics but they do no. print anything
because they carrot put those antibiotics on the market for general use.
Sue surgical bacteriology is pres~n:ed very poorly.
10. The pre- and poet-operative trrstmen'. in many- art.i::les is old and primitive. Of
the parenterat.fiaide I found only phys ologi.sl solu'.un. No st fl 7f important
i~~traiiC ;Lade, pi.+isna, 1>>renteral nutr_tion, fl.'4id balance otc
11. . S:. '.i7B r?.: GS_5 ~.~ Ct.i;a the wi.Ji^ y car
1 '1'hr e In 1,:'y co r e;:rf;ical pathology (i; any). especially microscopic.
13 The disc: =sinne in articles are very poorly illu3tr96ted by :acts, espsoiniiY
:its`.! sties
1k. phase fear rams kn do not re show ear icai roress in the Sovi.e:tJninn in 1952.
The impression these Journals make Is, however;
..,., ,?na+.i ?~? because they are official editions and published not in s snail
rrovlncielt:a:: of USSR, bat in the center of Soviet Unix, ELa, .??c- --
+!--sy are a Z3rf!at authority for the whole country.
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