Trainee-surgeons are working at the computer class.
Department staff participated in the preparation of textbook "Hospital Surgery", manuals "Clinical Surgery", “Emergency surgery", "Standards of diagnosis and treatment ofemergent surgical diseases of organs of the abdominal cavity," "Surgery", CD “Abdominal hernia”. Moreover, in collaboration with the Honorary Worker of Science and Technology of Ukraine, corresponding member of AMS of Ukraine, Professor Leonid Y. Kovalchuk monograph "Surgery of damping-syndrome", atlas of operations on the abdominal organs and the anterior abdominal wall.
Research
Optimization of operative treatment methods of basic surgical diseases of abdominal organs in age-specific aspect, preventive treatment of organic and functional disordersafter operations on organs of the gastroduodenal and pancreas-billiary regions taking into consideration distant results. In this regard, the department conducts serious research ofgastric and duodenum motor activity with duodenal stenoses and operated stomach diseases. Operative methods of intervention have been introduced in practice: piloroantrumsustaining resection of the stomach, different methods of vagotomies in combination with duodenoplastic, piloroplastic, sustaining of gastric pacemaker innervation.Methods of surgical correction of functional stomach i duodenum disorders, damping-syndrome, Roux syndrome have been developed; syndrome of enteral insufficiency at intestinal obstruction, markers of cardiomyocytes, hepatocytes, enterocytes damage at bowel obstruction, pancreatitis and peritonitis are being investigated.
At the present time (2009-2012) teachers of the department work on the complex research "Development and improvement of new technologies of early diagnosis and operative treatment of surgical diseases on the basis of evidence-based medicine". Implementation of the tasks of this research will help to develop the algorithm and evaluate the effectiveness of sonographic, endosonographic, videoendoscopic, roentgenoscopic methods of diagnosis of acute and chronic surgical diseases of the abdominal cavity, to develop indications for use of sonographic intervention, endosonographic, videoendoscopic and roentgenoscopic mini-invasive interventions in patients with major surgical diseases of abdominal cavity, to develop new and improve existing methods of sonographic, endosonographic, videoendoscopic and roentgenoscopic mini-invasive interventions operating at different surgical diseases, allowing a comparative analysis of the effectiveness of the developed and improved sonographic, endosonographic, videoendoscopic and roentgenoscopic interventions with traditional methods of treatment in patients with acute and chronic surgical diseases of the abdominal cavity.
Over the last 5 years more than 120 scientific papers, 26 patents for inventions, 3 monographs, a newsletter have been published by the department staff in scientific journals, educational CD has been prepared, 11 doctoral thesis have been defended, 8 doctoral, 26 candidate's theses have been reviewed, two nationwide conferences have been carried out, 27 presentations at national and international conferences have been made.
At the present moment the department staff works on two doctoral and 12 candidate's theses.
Clinical work
Teaching staff provides planned and emergent surgical treatment and consultation for the population of city and region. The department performs operations on abdominal and anterior abdominal wall by endoscopic technologies, as well as reconstructive and restorative surgery.