CONTRIBUTION OF PROFESSOR M. N. AKHUTIN TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF RUSSIAN MILITARY FIELD SURGERY (TO THE 120TH ANNIVERSARY OF HIS BIRTH)

Abstract

The article briefly presents the achievements of the Soviet military field surgery. The scientific and practical activity of Professor Mikhail Nikiforovich Akhutin (1898-1948) is covered. The article analyzes the combat experience of the General of the medical service and his participation in the organization of treatment of the wounded. It is noted that after the end of VMA (1920) he was left in the clinic of Professor V.A. Oppel, under whose guidance he worked for 10 years. During the fighting at lake Hassan and on the Khalkhin-Gol river M.N. Akhutin was one of the organizers and leaders of surgical care for the wounded. In 1939 he headed the Department of hospital surgery in the Kuibyshev VMA. During the Soviet-Finnish war (1939-1940) M.N. Akhutin was an army consultant surgeon. During the great Patriotic war (1941-1945) - chief surgeon of the Bryansk, and then the 2nd Baltic and 1st Ukrainian fronts. Since 1945-Deputy chief surgeon of the Soviet Army and head of the Department of faculty surgery of the 1st MMI named after I.M. Sechenov. M.N. Akhutin is the author of more than 70 scientific works, 40 of them relate to military field surgery and are devoted to the experience of surgical work in the active army, the treatment of various combat injuries (chest, main vessels, large joints), as well as issues of transport immobilization, wound infection and other important surgical problems. It is noted that he was a good lecturer, teacher and talented organizer. M.N. Akhutin made a significant contribution to the development of Soviet military field surgery.