Ukrainian fighters with heart and chest injuries will be able to receive specialized care at the Institute of Cardiovascular Surgery named after M.. Amosova. The medical institution, whose doctors have been developing this area since 2014, has opened a department of military cardiac surgery.

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" A full-scale war forced the health care system to switch to a “military” footing,” explains the director of the department, academician Vasyl Lazoryshinets..

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Having gone through the experience of the previous stage of the war, the specialists of the medical institution, together with military doctors, developed indications for the evacuation of the wounded directly to the cardiosurgical hospital, indications for the removal of a foreign body after a penetrating gunshot wound of the chest, and recommendations for managing a patient when a fragment remains in the heart.

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Doctors of the medical institution introduce new methods of dealing with severe heart injuries. In particular, we are talking about extracting foreign objects, metal fragments from the hearts of fighters using magnets, etc..

From the summer of 2014 to the beginning of December of this year, about 600 soldiers who had a pathology of the heart and great vessels were treated at the Amosov Institute. Patients underwent 426 interventions.