Stories of a Resuscitator from St. Petersburg's Sklif

Vyacheslav Afonchikov - Honored Doctor of the Russian Federation, Candidate of Medical Sciences, author of a number of scientific works dedicated to the problems of trauma, shock, and intensive care. He is the Deputy Chief Physician of the Janeridze Research Institute of Emergency Medicine, where the most severe patients from all over Northwest Russia arrive: with poisonings, burns, complex fractures, after accidents and emergencies. He leads a team of 250 professional resuscitators and loves to compare the work to that of frontline doctors. In the book Stories of a Resuscitator from St. Petersburg's Sklif, you will find answers to the questions: • How does our body hinder its own treatment? • Which patients are the hardest to save? • Do diseases have a nationality? • Is humanity threatened by a division into mortal and immortal? Vyacheslav Afonchikov's sharp perspective will not only make you think about innovative methods of treatment and training doctors but will also open a door to the medicine of the future.