HISTORY OF DEVELOPMENT AND APPLICATION OF THE DITERICHS' SPLINT Cover Image

ІСТОРІЯ СТВОРЕННЯ ТА ЗАСТОСУВАННЯ ШИНИ ДІТЕРІХСА
HISTORY OF DEVELOPMENT AND APPLICATION OF THE DITERICHS' SPLINT

Author(s): Petro Kovalchuk, Igor Biryuk, Ivan Tsurkan, Anatoliy Zinchenko, Dmitry Yakymyuk
Subject(s): Evaluation research, Health and medicine and law
Published by: Видавництво ВДНЗ України « Буковинський державний медичний університет »
Keywords: dressing; splint; Diterichs' splint; immobilization; fracture; splint;

Summary/Abstract: The article describes the history of the creation and use of the Diterichs' splint, its main historical stages of creating Diterichs' splint for immobilization and their introduction into medicine. Diterichs' splint originates in 1931, when surgeon Mikhayil Mykhaylovych Diterichs published in the journal “Military Sanitary Affairs” his new invention ‑ a design for temporary fixation of the lower limb. Purpose of the study is to describe the historical stages of Diterichs' splint creation and its use in case of bone fractures of the lower limbs. The basic situations of overlapping Diterichs' splint are presented here and also requirements for special manufacture. Research methods are descriptive, classification and systematization methods for analysis, synthesis and synthesis of historical data on the development and implementation of Diterichs' splint in medicine of various types.

  • Issue Year: 2019
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 93-98
  • Page Count: 6
  • Language: Ukrainian