Military Medical Academy named after Lenin S. M. Kirov

In the history of surgery, it happened more than once that one or another of its sections began to develop at an especially rapid pace. So, for example, quite recently lung surgery, surgical cardiology, and vascular surgery began to develop surprisingly quickly. In the last 20-25 years, the comprehensive development of burn surgery has also begun. And always the reason for this development was the appearance of conditions under which fundamentally new technical possibilities for treatment were created. In thoracic surgery and vascular surgery, these new conditions were created by the advent of modern anesthesiology, in burn surgery - by new surgical instruments - dermatomes. Dermatomes made it possible to carry out surgical treatment of deep burn wounds on a really large scale. All over the world, burn centers began to arise, where large contingents of those who were burned were subjected to comprehensive study. And an extensive new literature appeared, reflecting major changes in our understanding of the nature and treatment of burn wounds and burn disease.