Life–saving surgery for persistent paresis of the small intestine in the wounded in the abdomen — suspended enterostomy according to S.S. Yudin (to the 80th anniversary of the description of the method)

Khanevich M.D.

Sergey Sergeyevich Yudin, at the height of the Great Patriotic War in 1943, in his work “How to reduce postoperative mortality among those wounded in the stomach in the war?”, described in detail the method of forming a suspended enterostomy proposed by him to eliminate persistent paresis of the small intestine. This operation was performed in more than 12% of the wounded in the abdomen and received wide support from military field surgeons. Until the mid-60s, it remained the main method in the arsenal of surgeons for resolving persistent paresis of the small intestine in peritonitis and intestinal obstruction.

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