Anesthesia According to Vishnevsky

Anesthesia according to Vishnevsky (also called marsupialization, from the Latin marsupialis - “belonging to the bag”) is a method of treating abscess and phlegmon of the hand, which consists in removing pus through a specially made small incision (the incision is made above the abscess, outside the wound from previous surgical treatment). The procedure is named after the surgeon Anatoly Aleksandrovich Vishnevsky, who first described this method in his works in 1927.

Prerequisites for the emergence of the method - It is widely known that many doctors named their last name as a suffix for the new treatment methods they created. For example, if a doctor used the Ivanov-Kapetsky treatment method, then one of the authors, the head of the department of hospital surgery, said “the Fedorov-Kurbov method.” A.A. did the same. Vishnevsky. - In the articles written by A.A. Vishnevsky, there is no word “marsu” in Russian