Petrovsky Access

Petrovsky access is a surgical approach that was developed by the Soviet surgeon Boris Vasilyevich Petrovsky. He was born in 1908 and was educated at the Leningrad Medical Institute.

The Petrovsky approach is one of the most common surgical approaches in Russia and abroad. It is used to perform various surgeries on the abdomen, chest and neck. This approach allows the surgeon to access organs without damaging surrounding tissue and muscle.

To perform the Petrovsky approach, the surgeon makes a small incision on the anterior wall of the abdomen. He then guides special instruments through the incision to reach the desired organ. After the organ has been removed or modified, the surgeon closes the incision with sutures.

This access has a number of advantages over other accesses. Firstly, it allows the surgeon to work with the organ without damaging neighboring tissues. Secondly, it does not require lengthy preparation of the patient before surgery. Thirdly, it can be used to perform operations on various organs and parts of the body.

However, like any other surgical approach, the Petrovsky approach may have some risks. For example, it may cause bleeding or infection. Additionally, this access may be more difficult to perform than other accesses.

In general, the Petrovsky approach is a reliable and effective method of surgical access. It is widely used in Russia and other countries of the world, and continues to develop and improve.

**Article about Petrovsky Access.**

Petrovsky admission is the pseudonym of the Soviet surgeon Vasily Petrovich Petrov (1878-1954), who is best known for his discovery of the method of endotracheal anesthesia (inhalation anesthesia). His contribution to the history of anesthesiology and modern medicine cannot be overestimated.

Vasily Petrov was born in Moscow at the end of the 19th century, lost his father at the age of 5, grew up and studied at a real school, and was preparing to enter the chemistry department of the Imperial Moscow University, where his father worked at that time. Soon Vasily changed his mind and entered the medical faculty of the same university. But he failed to complete his studies: during his studies, he fell in love with the first student of the school named Lina Kh. After an unsuccessful attempt to escape to his beloved, having completed only two courses at the Faculty of Medicine, Petrov moved to Tomsk, where at the age of 23 he became a resident at the city hospital.

Medicine and surgery were then crafts that did not require a scientific approach, or were far from scientific research. The schools taught not the methods of diagnosis and treatment in general, but the basics of anatomy and physiology, which were often taught only to future doctors and dropout students, so that at the very least they could see patients after serving in the army. University professors of surgery not only did not organize conferences on current scientific problems, but were also afraid to admit their own mistakes, which further hampered the progressive development of medical science. Student Petrov dreamed of research work, and therefore he gladly accepted the offer of the Siberian Council of Medical Workers to head one of the first surgical clinics in Tomsk - the “Alexandrovsk Hospital”. In the conditions of the then provincial clinic, this meant not only a transition to a professional basis of work, but also the birth of a scientific school, where Dr. Vasiliev lured his friend Lina, who came to the hospital as an operating nurse and later became his wife.

A significant part of Vasily Petrov’s scientific ideas is associated with the ideas of humanist doctors of the 19th century, such as Emile Charpentier and Claude Bernard. Petrov and his wife made a huge contribution to the science of fundamental and clinical medicine, gynecology and obstetrics, scientific hygiene and sanitation.

Already Petrov’s first clinical experience in practice showed that correct preoperative education of the patient strengthens the awareness of the need for proper preparation for surgery. By doing this, the doctor tried to involve the public in solving the most important problems, opened wide the treasured doors of the surgical museum to medical students and provided the opportunity