Negovsky, Vladimir Alexandrovich

Vladimir Alexandrovich Negovsky was born on March 6 ( March 19 ), 1909 in the city (now a town) of Kozelets ( Chernihiv Oblast , Ukraine ), in a family of teachers.

In 1933, after graduating from the institute, Vladimir Alexandrovich worked as a practical doctor for some time, and from the summer of 1934 he joined the pathophysiology laboratory of the Blood Transfusion Institute and worked there until 1935 with Professor Sergei Bryukhonenko , one of the creators of the first heart-lung machine - an auto-filter. While working at this institute, Negovsky prepared and published his first scientific work, “The Effect of Coagulators and Blood Stabilizers on the Isolated Rabbit Gut.” He took part in all experiments on the revitalization of the body, conducted at the institute.

The ideas of the fight against death carried away Vladimir Alexandrovich more and more. Seeing that hard work in this direction can give positive results, Vladimir Alexandrovich wrote a letter to the Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR, in which he asked for an opportunity to work in the field of revitalizing the body, and was invited to the Department of Scientific Institutions of the USSR People's Health. The result of this visit was Order No. 118 of October 19, 1936, according to which a special-purpose laboratory was organized on the problem: "Restoring life processes in phenomena similar to death." Professor Nikolai Nilovich Burdenko agreed to take this small laboratory to the Institute of Neurosurgery, the People's Commissariat of Health allocated 7 units.

In 1948, the Negovsky laboratory became an independent scientific institution - the Research Laboratory of General Reanimatology of the Academy of Medical Sciences of the USSR, which was widely recognized both in our country and abroad.

The first step that V. A. Negovsky takes on the path to the development of a new science is the separation of clinical death and biological death . He puts forward the proposition that clinical death, that is, the state of the body, defined, according to centuries-old medical canons, as cardiac arrest and cessation of breathing, is in fact a transition process from life to biological death, irreversible. And one more fundamental position in the logical series of the concept of V. A. Negovsky - the role of the brain .

During the years of World War II (1941-1945) V. A. Negovsky organized a front-line brigade, as part of which he went to the army and there helped revive the wounded, who were in a state of agony or clinical death.

In the postwar years, the practical activities of the laboratory, led by V. A. Negovsky, expanded significantly. In 1946, a clinical resuscitation center was created in the surgical clinic of A.N. Bakulev. In 1954, in the maternity hospital No. 13 (currently the City Hospital No. 8 Moscow (GBUZ “GB No. 8 DZM”) ) V. A. Negovsky set up an experimental physiology laboratory to revitalize the body and treat terminal conditions of pregnant women and women in childbirth. Then his work was carried out in the 4th City Clinical Hospital, and in 1964, the first resuscitation department of the general profile in the USSR was organized at the S.P. Botkin Clinical Hospital , on the basis of which the Moscow exit resuscitation center serving Moscow hospitals began.

The generalization of the results of his own research, as well as the data of Soviet and foreign authors, allowed Negovsky to announce at the International Congress of Traumatologists in Budapest (1961) the emergence of a new medical science - resuscitation , the subject of which is pathology , therapy and prevention of terminal conditions.

In 1971, Anatol Dolinov and Vladimir Negovsky developed a project to create the European Cryonics Corporation. The project was not implemented ^[1]

In 1985, the world's first Research Institute of General Reanimatology (NIIOR AMS USSR) was created. The institute is widely developing questions of pathophysiology, prevention and treatment of terminal conditions caused by various causes (shock and blood loss, myocardial infarction, drowning, electrical trauma, asphyxia of newborns, etc.), in particular, the etiology and pathogenesis of heart ventricular fibrillation and the possibility of its termination with using current pulses of high strength. On the basis of these works, defibrillators manufactured by the medical industry were designed, which, thanks to their effectiveness and safety, have won universal recognition.

V.A. Negovsky led the institute until 1988 , and until his death he was an adviser to the institute. Member of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts (1983).

Vladimir Alexandrovich combined a wide versatile talent, amazing diligence, exceptional determination and organization. If we add to these qualities a truly encyclopedic education, vast clinical and practical experience, excellent personal qualities, then the true extent of this person becomes clear.

He died on August 2, 2003 . He was buried in Moscow at the Khovansky cemetery .

• Order “For Merit to the Fatherland”, IV degree ( November 21, 1996 ) - for merits to the state and many years of conscientious work ^[2]
• The order of Lenin
• Order of the Patriotic War II degree
• Order of the Red Banner of Labor
• Order of the Red Star
• Order of the Badge of Honor
• medals
• Stalin Prize of the second degree ( 1952 ) - for scientific research and development of methods for restoring the vital functions of an organism in a state of agony or clinical death
• USSR State Prize ( 1970 ) - for the proposal, development and implementation of cardiac arrhythmias in medical practice

Vladimir Alexandrovich Negovsky is the author of more than 300 scientific papers published in domestic journals. Over a hundred of his works have been published abroad.

Monographs

• Restoring the vital functions of an organism in a state of agony or during a period of clinical death. Ed. V.V. Parina. - M.: Medgiz, 1943. - 172 s (Reprinted in English in the journal Amer. Rev. Sov. Med., 1945-1946.)
• Experience in the treatment of agony and clinical death in the military area. - M .: Medgiz, 1945 .-- 95 p.
• Pathophysiology and therapy of agony and clinical death. - M.: Medgiz, 1954.- 256 s (Reprinted in Dutch, 1954; in Romanian, 1955; in Polish, 1956; in German, 1959.)
• Devices for artificial respiration. - M .: Medgiz, 1959.- 80 p.
• Revitalization and artificial hypothermia. - M .: Medgiz, 1960 .-- 303 s (Reprinted in English, 1962; in Spanish, 1967.)
• Indirect cardiac massage and expiratory artificial respiration. - M.: “Soviet Russia”, 1966. - 216 p.
• Fundamentals of resuscitation (under the editorship) - M.: “Medicine”, 1966. - 397 s (Reprinted in Yugoslavian language, 1970.)
• Problems of resuscitation (ed.). - M .: B. and., 1969. - 162 p.
• Actual problems of resuscitation. - M .: "Medicine", 1971. - 215 p.
• Fundamentals of resuscitation (ed.). 2nd ed., Revised. and add. - M .: "Medicine", 1975. - 360 p.
• Fundamentals of resuscitation (ed.). 3rd ed., Revised. and add. - Tashkent: “Medicine”, 1977. - 600 p.
• Postresuscitation disease (in collaboration with A. M. Gurvich, E. S. Zolotokrylina). - M .: "Medicine", 1979. - 383 s (Reprinted in English., 1983.)
• Essays on resuscitation. - M.: “Medicine”, 1986. - 254 s (Reprinted in English., 1989.)
• Postresuscitation disease (in collaboration with A. M. Gurvich, E. S. Zolotokrylina). 2nd ed., Revised. and add. - M .: "Medicine", 1987. - 480 p.

Brochures and popular editions

• Recovery of vital functions of the body. Transcript of a public lecture given at the central lecture hall of the Society in Moscow. - M., "Pravda", 1947. - 20 p.
• Clinical death as an irreversible stage of dying. - M.: Publishing House of the Academy of Medical Sciences of the USSR, 1951. - 32 p.
• The problem of restoring the vital functions of an organism in a state of agony or clinical death. Transcript of a public lecture. - M.: “Knowledge”, 1953. - 36 p.
• The problem of reviving a dying organism. - M.: Goskultprosvetizdat, 1954.- 35 p.
• Back to life. An expanded transcript of a lecture given in the Central Lecture of the All-Union Society “Knowledge”. - M.: “Knowledge”, 1963. - 40 p.
• From death to life. - M.: “Knowledge”, 1964. - 40 p.
• The story of the defeated death (in co-authorship with N. N. Umants). - M .: Politizdat, 1965 .-- 144 p.
• From death to life. - M.: “Knowledge”, 1975. - 64 p.
• Second Life. - M.: “Knowledge”, 1983. - 63 p.
• V. A. Negovsky CLINICAL DEATH BY THE EYES OF THE RESEARCHANT

Editorial work

• Proceedings of the conference on the problem of pathophysiology and therapy of terminal conditions in the clinic and the practice of emergency care (ed. Ed.). - M .: Medgiz, 1954.- 240 p.
• The use of deep hypothermia in terminal conditions. Actual issues of resuscitation and hypothermia. Proceedings of the symposium (eds.). - M .: B. and., 1964. -? with.
• Recovery period after recovery. Pathophysiology and therapy in an experiment and clinic. Proceedings of the symposium (ed.). - M.: “Soviet Russia”, 1970. - 327 p.

• On the occasion of the 70th birthday of Academician of the Academy of Medical Sciences of the USSR V. A. Negovsky // Modern problems of resuscitation. - M .: B. and., 1980.

• Video essay on resuscitation and V. A. Negovsky
• O. Boguslavskaya. The foreman of God // Moskovsky Komsomolets. - Vol. 10/20/2003 .
• Autobiography of Academician V.A. Negovsky
• Vladimir Alexandrovich Negovsky @ peoples.ru