The National Academy of Internal Affairs and the Main Medical Clinical Center of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine are expanding scientific cooperation, which resulted in the transfer of the first patent for a jointly developed instrument for wartime surgery.
The National Academy of Internal Affairs and the Main Medical Clinical Center of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine are expanding scientific cooperation, which resulted in the transfer of the first patent for a jointly developed instrument for wartime surgery.
This was reported by the NAVS Facebook page, which states that on July 18, the management of the MIA hospital officially received a patent for a device for removing encapsulated ferromagnetic foreign bodies from soft tissues. This device, created within the framework of an interagency partnership, allows for the effective removal of bullet and shell fragments with ferromagnetic properties that are stuck deep in the body, which is critically important in field conditions during war.
The development of the device was made possible by the initiative of the veterans' organization of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, which launched cooperation between the academy and the hospital last year. Six patent applications have already been filed for medical instruments that can increase the effectiveness of providing assistance to the wounded. Both scientists from the academy and practicing surgeons from the hospital participated in the development process, and the effectiveness of the joint work was confirmed by doctors from other departments, who expressed a desire to join the next stages of cooperation.
According to available open information, these are magnetically oriented systems that allow the surgeon to quickly detect and extract a fragment without excessive tissue damage. Similar technologies are already used in military hospitals in Israel and the United States, but the Ukrainian development has a number of adapted solutions for difficult combat conditions. In addition, it can be used not only in stationary hospitals, but also in mobile medical units.
The cooperation between the National Institute of Internal Affairs and the Ministry of Internal Affairs Hospital, which has been going on for the second year, aims to create a systematic scientific foundation to support law enforcement agencies. In particular, this concerns the treatment and rehabilitation of police and military personnel injured during combat missions. In the future, this interaction may go beyond the medical sphere and encompass a wider range of innovations for the security and defense sector.
We previously wrote about how surgeons at Lviv's St. Nicholas Children's Hospital used the Da Vinci robot to remove an adrenal tumor from a 4-year-old girl from Vinnytsia. Such operations on children using a robot surgeon have not been performed in Ukraine before.
