An important stage in the development of field surgery

Abstract

The article deals with rise and development of field surgery during the Great Patriotic War. The success of the treatment of the wounded in medical battalions, medical institutions of army and front-line hospital bases, as well as on the home front , was ensured by the implementation of a system of staged treatment with evacuation according to the destination. The creation and use of this fundamentally new, advanced system of medical and evacuation support for troops in the conditions of the last war was a major achievement of the national health care and military medical service.