Krasnoyarsk Interdistrict Clinical Emergency Hospital named after N.S. Karpovich

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2021: Use of household drill for cranial trepanation

In early August 2021, it became known that in the Krasnoyarsk Interdistrict Clinical Hospital of Emergency Medicine named after N.S. Karpovich used household drills for cranial trepanation surgery.

In order to operate, flutter the skull, we buy drills in the store. There is a special pneumothrepan, which the hospital for some reason does not consider necessary to buy, "said Igor Grinev, a deputy of the city council, in an interview with the local" 8 channel. "

As the surgeon said, the problem has not been solved for several years. However, in response to numerous requests from doctors to finally purchase a surgical tool for cranial trepanation, officials say that there is "no money" for this.

In the Krasnoyarsk hospital named after N.S. Karpovich trepanation of the skull is made a household drill

According to him, such drills are bought for 4-7 thousand rubles at Leroy Merlin, while pneumothrepan costs about 1.5 million rubles. According to the doctor, the hospital management and the minister were "angry" at him because of criticism and threatened with dismissal.

The BSMP said that they were fully provided with mechanical equipment for the operational access stage. But did the doctors of the hospital specifically have a pneumothrepan device, the absence of which Igor Grinev spoke about, the administration did not specify.

The hospital has the necessary diagnostic and operational equipment, including mechanical for the application of milling holes, as a stage of operational access. The equipment is purchased and updated regularly based on the needs and technologies owned by the surgeons of the hospital, the official statement of the BSMP publication "Rise" cites.

Telegram channel "Borus" reported with reference to colleagues Igor Grinev that the doctor rarely appears in the hospital and does not operate. The neurosurgeon himself, in a conversation with the NGS24.ru portal, said that he came under pressure from the authorities, he works in the hospital and "plows at night" on duty^[1]

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