In the 2008 the community of heart surgery had a double anniversary - marks 25 years since the founding of the Institute of Cardiovascular Surgery and 50 years from the date of the first heart surgery with artificial circulation.

Timing for such a young community considerable. How infancy surgery one of the most important organs for human life? Soaking in history.

The era of cardiac surgery began with a search for methods of life support the body during cardiac arrest and disabling lung, and then the correction of the defect in the open, "dry" heart.

Were drafted four directions :

Cross-circulation with the next of kin

Total body cooling to 28°С Record time of circulatory arrest - 97 minutes

Hyperbaric oxygen therapy Excessive pressure О2 – about 2 atmospheres Threshold voltage of blood О2 up to 1000%

Extracorporeal circulation The basis was laid in 1923. In Russia Bryuhonenko S.S. and Terebinskiy N.N. in Germany, received a patent for device

The first experimental heart-assist device was developed by Nikolai Mikhailovich Amosov in 1957

He also carried out its first operation with artificial circulation in 1958

In 1993, the Institute had developed the world's first computer simulator of cardiopulmonary bypass, received a diploma and a prize for the best work in Arles (France).

For 50 years, the Institute conducted more than 150 000 heart operations. Performs all types of surgical intervention for heart patients to newborns and up to old people. Why do I need to increase the number of operations? This is the most effective and radical method of treatment, and often - the only possible Cardiologists have stalled - medication can lead to further progress According to European standards in Ukraine to carry out 35,000 operations a year, and performed (with centers) around 12 000 – 36%