The City

Hospital A hospital is a healthcare institution providing patient treatment with specialized Medical Science, health science and auxiliary healthcare staff and medical equipment. The best-known type of hospital is the general hospital, which typically ...

No 40 of

Saint Petersburg Saint Petersburg, formerly known as Petrograd and later Leningrad, is the List of cities and towns in Russia by population, second-largest city in Russia after Moscow. It is situated on the Neva, River Neva, at the head of the Gulf of Finland ...

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, belongs to the largest health care facilities (more than 1000 beds) for delivering

in-patient A patient is any recipient of health care services that are performed by healthcare professionals. The patient is most often ill or injured and in need of treatment by a physician, nurse, optometrist, dentist, veterinarian, or other health ...

definitive and specialized medical care in North West Russia. The official name is ''The Saint Petersburg State Health Care Establishment the City Hospital No 40 of the Resort District''. The Hospital is situated within the boundaries of the city of

Sestroretsk Sestroretsk (; ; ) is a municipal town in Kurortny District of the federal city of St. Petersburg, Russia, located on the shores of the Gulf of Finland, the Sestra River and the Sestroretskiy Lake northwest of St. Petersburg. Po ...

History

The hospital traces its history back to 1748, when a 50-bed infirmary was founded at Sestroretsk armory. Its more detailed history is clearer from the beginning of the 20th century. After the

Russian Civil War The Russian Civil War () was a multi-party civil war in the former Russian Empire sparked by the 1917 overthrowing of the Russian Provisional Government in the October Revolution, as many factions vied to determine Russia's political future. I ...

(1917–1923) the hospital was headed by Sergey Yul’evich Malevskiy (1869—1934). He was a talented Russian

surgeon In medicine, a surgeon is a medical doctor who performs surgery. Even though there are different traditions in different times and places, a modern surgeon is a licensed physician and received the same medical training as physicians before spec ...

who intensively operated, stayed with severe patients after midnight, spent his scanty means on purchasing

surgical instrument A surgical instrument is a medical device for performing specific actions or carrying out desired effects during a surgery or operation, such as modifying biological tissue, or to provide access for viewing it. Over time, many different kinds of ...

medications Medication (also called medicament, medicine, pharmaceutical drug, medicinal product, medicinal drug or simply drug) is a drug used to medical diagnosis, diagnose, cure, treat, or preventive medicine, prevent disease. Drug therapy (pharmaco ...

and food. Almost all residents of Sestroretsk gathered to pay their last tribute to Sergey Yul’evich. The restoration of the hospital after the

Second World War World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War II, Allies and the Axis powers. World War II by country, Nearly all of the wo ...

devastation was conducted by the Chief physician Nikolay Evgen’evich Slupskiy (1899–1964). He was an outstanding person who served as a prototype for heroes of Yuriy German novels “My dear man”, “The cause you serve”, “Hello, doctor”, and the tale “The story of doctor Nikolay Evgen’evich”. From the middle of the 1960s, the hospital began to expand. New buildings for

pediatric Pediatrics (American English) also spelled paediatrics (British English), is the branch of medicine that involves the medical care of infants, children, adolescents, and young adults. In the United Kingdom, pediatrics covers many of their youth ...

, pulmonological,

surgical Surgery is a medical specialty that uses manual and instrumental techniques to diagnose or treat pathological conditions (e.g., trauma, disease, injury, malignancy), to alter bodily functions (e.g., malabsorption created by bariatric surgery ...

, and

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services were constructed. The first specialized proctological unit was opened in

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. Hospital capacity was increased up to 680 beds. On 11 May 1974 on the site of the hospital, the first in-patient 520-bed rehabilitation center in the

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was opened. In 35 years of this center's existence, more than 250,000 patients have received rehabilitation treatment in it. Since November 2005 the hospital has been headed by professor Sergey Grigor’evich Scherbak.

Today

At the present time the hospital has units in service in following specialties:

anesthesiology Anesthesiology, anaesthesiology or anaesthesia is the medical specialty concerned with the total perioperative medicine, perioperative care of patients before, during and after surgery. It encompasses anesthesia, intensive care medicine, critica ...

and

resuscitation Resuscitation is the process of correcting physiological disorders (such as lack of breathing or heartbeat) in an Acute (medicine), acutely ill patient. It is an important part of intensive care medicine, anesthesiology, trauma surgery and emerg ...

(2),

intensive care Intensive care medicine, usually called critical care medicine, is a medical specialty that deals with seriously or critically ill patients who have, are at risk of, or are recovering from conditions that may be life-threatening. It includes p ...

(3),

vascular surgery Vascular surgery is a surgical subspecialty in which vascular diseases involving the arteries, veins, or lymphatic vessels, are managed by medical therapy, minimally-invasive catheter procedures and surgical reconstruction. The specialty evolve ...

neurology Neurology (from , "string, nerve" and the suffix wikt:-logia, -logia, "study of") is the branch of specialty (medicine) , medicine dealing with the diagnosis and treatment of all categories of conditions and disease involving the nervous syst ...

(3),

orthopedics Orthopedic surgery or orthopedics (American and British English spelling differences, alternative spelling orthopaedics) is the branch of surgery concerned with conditions involving the musculoskeletal system. Orthopedic surgeons use both surgic ...

(2),

traumatology In medicine, traumatology (from Greek ''trauma'', meaning injury or wound) is the study of wounds and injuries caused by accidents or violence to a person, and the surgical therapy and repair of the damage. Traumatology is a branch of medicine. ...

gynecology Gynaecology or gynecology (see American and British English spelling differences) is the area of medicine concerned with conditions affecting the Female reproductive system, female reproductive system. It is often paired with the field of obste ...

, coloproctology, rehabilitation (4), physical methods of treatment (2), and some others. Annually 20,000 patients receive in-patient treatment in the hospital. The hospital possesses modern diagnostic and treatment modalities including

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and magnetic resonance computed tomography, and a series of high-tech devices such as the assisting

robot A robot is a machine—especially one Computer program, programmable by a computer—capable of carrying out a complex series of actions Automation, automatically. A robot can be guided by an external control device, or the robot control, co ...

for rehabilitation of patients after

stroke Stroke is a medical condition in which poor cerebral circulation, blood flow to a part of the brain causes cell death. There are two main types of stroke: brain ischemia, ischemic, due to lack of blood flow, and intracranial hemorrhage, hemor ...

spinal cord injury A spinal cord injury (SCI) is damage to the spinal cord that causes temporary or permanent changes in its function. It is a destructive neurological and pathological state that causes major motor, sensory and autonomic dysfunctions. Symptoms of ...

, cardiac shock wave therapy for treatment

angina Angina, also known as angina pectoris, is chest pain or pressure, usually caused by insufficient blood flow to the heart muscle (myocardium). It is most commonly a symptom of coronary artery disease. Angina is typically the result of parti ...

resistant to medications,

transcranial magnetic stimulation Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) is a noninvasive neurostimulation technique in which a changing magnetic field is used to induce an electric current in a targeted area of the brain through electromagnetic induction. A device called a st ...

for treatment the patients with stroke and

head injury A head injury is any injury that results in trauma to the skull or brain. The terms ''traumatic brain injury'' and ''head injury'' are often used interchangeably in the medical literature. Because head injuries cover such a broad scope of inju ...

. The results of treatment and diagnostic activities have been analyzed and summarized. Since 2010 the hospital has published its yearbook included the scientific works of hospital’s physicians for that year. The table of contents and chapter’s abstracts both in Russian and English are freely available at the hospital web site.Publications // The City Hospital No 40, Saint Petersburg, Russia. The Official Web Site. URL: (Last visited: 29 May 2011)

References

External links

The City Hospital No 40, Saint Petersburg, Russia. Official Web Site
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