1 . 2017

EDITORIAL

Abstract

Dear authors and readers of our journal!

It is a pleasure to inform you that our cooperation produces meaningful results: in late December 2016, we received a partnership proposal from the world-leading publishing-house Elsevier. Please find excerpts from this agreement: “Products of Elsevier are applied by leading research institutes, publishing articles via the publishing-house will enhance citation and impact factor of journals selected for cooperation by Elsevier. Elsevier intends to publish articles from “Clinical and Experimental Surgery” dating back to 2013; all these journal issues have been revised based on the strict quality control system, including criteria and standards of selecting journals and articles. The current proposal is the confirmation of your top-level work over “Clinical and Experimental Surgery. Petrovsky Journal”.

I am sure that by signing this agreement with Elsevier we will be able to expand significantly our participation in developing and covering fundamental and real-world problems in our field of medicine.

Editor-in-chief Sergey Dzemeshkevich,

MD, Professor

Dear colleagues,

the First International Biomedical Congress of Critical Care was held in Moscow on 28–30 November 2016. Wide-ranging and extremely interesting topics related to problems in modern neurocritical care, critical care pathophysiology, extracorporeal life support, regenerative medicine and organ transplantation were presented at the Congress. About 350 professionals from Russia took part in the forum. Leading Russian, European and American scientists delivered lectures and held discussions. The event was organized by efforts of the Federal Medical Biophysical Center (of the Federal Biomedical Agency) named after A.I. Burnazyan, Petrovsky National Research Centre of Surgery and the Scientific Research Neurosurgery Institute named after the academician Nikolay Nilovich Burdenko, with support from the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Education and Science of Russia.

Thus, the editorial staff of “Clinical and Experimental Surgery. Petrovsky Journal” decided to dedicate the first issue of the journal in 2017 to the problems of organ-preserving technologies in surgery and life-support methods in emergency care. These topics are closely interrelated and are hardly to be considered separately. It seemed interesting to us to clarify these issues from the point of view of surgeons and emergency care specialists in various fields of medicine. Currently, organ-preserving technologies are the main trend in surgery, and advances in development and application of life-supporting methods, through the use of modern mechanical and pharmaceutical means, provide further improvement and upgrade for these technologies.

In this issue, we aimed to provide the representatives of the critical care medicine and professionals of various types of surgery with opportunity to express their opinion. Special place in these issue has been given to the articles devoted to the problems of extracorporeal life-support.

We would like to draw your attention to the fact that in this issue we provided students of medical academic institutions with possibility to share their experience in experimental development of orthotopic liver transplantation: the continuity of generations is the basis of the “life-support” for the profession.

Executive editor Maxim Babaev,