New operations on existing equipment

Professors from St. Petersburg and Moscow train Sochi pediatricians in the latest medical technologies. The City Children's Hospital offers advanced training courses for doctors and nursing staff. Nurses learn to play. Children's favorite toys are on the teacher's desk. They use them to master new technologies. One of them is care that develops. A qualified nurse will notice in time what mom and dad simply don't notice. Emilia Ispolatovskaya, Associate Professor of the Nursing Department at the Russian Medical Academy of Postgraduate Education, Moscow: "If a nurse discovers developmental problems, she consults a pediatrician, who refers them to a specialist. He makes corrections, and thus the child better integrates into his age environment and keeps up with his peers." In the next office, pediatric surgeons are perfecting their skills. Endovideosurgery, where the doctor makes punctures rather than incisions during an operation, has been used in Sochi before. Professor Shchebenkov from St. Petersburg is teaching our pediatricians the new possibilities of this method, which is considered the most painless for the body. Mikhail Shchebenkov, professor of the Department of Pediatric Surgery at the St. Petersburg Academy of Postgraduate Education: “Such operations can be used for hernias, injuries, ulcers, and gallstones, which occur in children.” The hospital cannot send all of its leading specialists to study at the capital’s centers, so an off-site course was organized. Now almost everyone studies here. It was not only a thirst for knowledge that attracted the doctors, but also the licensing procedure, which is scheduled for next year. And for this, certificates obtained upon completion of advanced training courses are required. Vladislav Olmezov, Chief Physician of the Children's City Hospital: "Today, we conducted training with neonatologists, pediatricians, surgeons, and resuscitation specialists. The final cycle is pediatric nursing." While the doctors and nurses were training, a child with a suspected intestinal obstruction was admitted to the hospital. Three-year-old Rusik from Abkhazia wasn't just crying—he was screaming. He was examined by Professor Shchebenkov, who had just given a lecture on endosurgery. If the little patient's condition doesn't improve in a few hours, he will become the first patient to undergo surgery using technologies that were just theoretical for our doctors this morning.