arthroplasty Center in Odessa, is based on clinical pathology and replacement joints Ukrainian Research Institute of Naval Medicine ( ' Hospital of conductors ), where since 1997 a professor Polivoda AN together with leading experts of Ukraine and Germany ( professors Rybachuk About . I., K. Diehl , a private docent Siebel T.) Started for the first time in the South of Ukraine to adopt modern technology is widely knee and hip joints.
The first replacement operations was preceded by years of serious training, which included the training of medical staff in leading hospitals in our country.As well as Germany , Austria and France , the creation of an operational unit in charge of higher requirements of asepsis , requirements for replacement of the procedures ( climate control system , air purification, disposable sterile cover , gowns , etc.) Purchase of special equipment and tools to perform these , extremely high-tech operations.
In the history of the Centre is interesting and the fact that for the whole of 1997 was made of 5 transactions , using mostly local implants at the time, as the 2000performed 40 operations and significantly expanded the range of implants used , apart from domestic uses implants of leading foreign manufacturers : Biomet, W. Link and De Puy. With German colleagues have visited Odessa and shared their experience in operating the Center directly .In the same year for the first time in the south of Ukraine holds knee replacement , in 2002 we performed 62 operations total knee and hip joints, further expanded the range used in artificial joints , which allowed significantly improve the quality of operations , sincenot one single type of prosthesis ' fit ' to the patient, and range from a variety of modifications of the chosen implant is most suitable for the patient.
In February 2003, the leadership of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine and Kiev Research Institute of Traumatology and Orthopedics Clinic evaluated the contribution to the development of replacement problems by assigning it a branch of the National Center arthroplasty .
For the past 10 years, the Center holds more than 500 transactions hip and knee joints.Several dozen patients performed a bilateral knee replacement ( right and left ) hip or knee replacement (and, in patients where there was testimony? Performed one-stage arthroplasty of both joints in one operation ), as well as consistent hip and knee joints in one patient.
In the present Odessa Endoprosthesis Centre received the status of the regional center and in April 2004 was transferred to the regional hospital. Here, based on the orthopedic and traumatology department , the Center received new opportunities of development :.
there was a program budget funding some of the problems arthroplasty ; .
significantly increased the indications for surgery in patients with severe concomitant diseases ( due to the presence of modern clinical and diagnostic facilities in the EDB , the presence of the most powerful intensive care unit and the most highly qualified medical specialists in every field of medicine ) .
was created only in Ukraine operating unit specifically for the replacement that matches the highest international standards of hygiene for implantations of artificial joints .
Center ( the only facility in Odessa ) is equipped with an original set of tools to install the implants and implant kits for total knee and hip joints of the leading foreign manufacturers : Biomet, Stryker, Zimmer, De Puy, W. Lin.
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