scholarly journals Development of the city hospital in Novi Sad - part II

2019 ◽  
Vol 72 (7-8) ◽  
pp. 251-256
Author(s):  
Dusanka Dobanovacki ◽  
Nada Vuckovic ◽  
Radmila Gudovic ◽  
Vladimir Sakac ◽  
Milanka Tatic ◽  
...  

At the end of the Second World War, the General State Hospital had seven departments, the same facilities, and the same bed capacity as in the pre-war period. In the newly formed state of Yugoslavia, intensive growth and modernization of the hospital began, despite the great financial difficulties. The hospital became the Main Provincial Hospital and new departments and services were established. Mainly during the 1960s and 1970s, ten new surgery departments were established, which later became independent clinics. The surgery departments occupied pavilions 1, 2, 3 and 4. Complex and contemporary abdominal and thoracic surgeries were performed. The Department of Internal Diseases became the Clinic of Internal Diseases and in 1964 it was moved to a newly equipped four-story building. The Clinic of Gynecology and Obstetrics was founded and it was moved into a modern, purpose-built facility with a 230 bed capacity for adult patients and 105 for newborns. Rapid progress has also been made in the development of the Clinic of Infectious Diseases, Clinic of Eye Diseases, Clinic of Ear, Nose and Throat Diseases, Neurology and Psychiatry Clinics, Clinic of Dermatovenereology Diseases, Medical Rehabilitation Clinic - as well as a modern laboratory, X-ray, blood transfusion, and polyclinic services. After the establishment of the Faculty of Medicine and the Clinical Center of Vojvodina, this large tertiary medical institution is the source of pride for Novi Sad. Founded 110 years ago, the hospital is still dedicated to providing better healthcare for patients.

2006 ◽  
Vol 59 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 149-154 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nedeljko Platisa ◽  
Gordana Devecerski

The aim of this study was to establish types of psychological reactions and conditions in patients with lower-extremity amputations. Apart from using psychological interviews, detection was performed using psychometric tests: Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory and Beck Depression Inventory. Psychometric parameters were analyzed in a group of 20 examinees treated at the Medical Rehabilitation Clinic in Novi Sad. Out of the whole sample. 45% of patients presented with adaptive reactions to amputation and consequent disability, whereas 55% presented with maladaptive responses. The registered psychopathological symptoms included nosologic categories: reaction to stressful events and adjustment disorder (predominantly affecting other emotions: mixed disorder of conduct and emotions: prolonged depressive reaction) and dysthymia. When working with lower-extremity amputees, apart from adaptive, nonpathological forms of behavior, one also encounters maladaptive responses with predomination of mood disorders due to severe somatic stress. .


2002 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gordon JG Asmundson

Clinicians often encounter patients who present with both chronic pain and elevated levels of anxiety. In some cases, the source of the anxiety is vague and diffuse. For others, there is an identifiable precipitating object, event or situation. For example, some patients with chronic pain are able to attribute their anxiety to the possibility of not regaining lost functional abilities, financial difficulties, feelings of social inadequacy, or uncertainty about the meaning and consequences of pain. The association between chronic pain and anxiety may not be particularly surprising when one considers that, in the acute phase, both pain and target-oriented anxiety (or fear) motivate actions that serve to minimize the threat and maximize the likelihood of successful escape. As well, their neurobiology, while distinct, interacts in the reticular system (1). Evaluations of the association between chronic pain and fear-relevant constructs were initiated in the 1960s and 1970s (2,3). It has only been of late, however, that theorists and researchers have begun to focus their attention on delineating the precise nature of the relationship and its specific implications for the assessment and management of pain.


2019 ◽  
Vol 72 (5-6) ◽  
pp. 143-147
Author(s):  
Srdjan Djurdjevic ◽  
Aleksandra Vejnovic ◽  
Milos Pantelic

Introduction. Laparoscopic assisted vaginal hysterectomy is a surgical procedure with uterine artery ligation followed by vaginal removal of the uterus. The first laparoscopic assisted vaginal hysterectomy was performed by Harry Reich in 1989. Material and Methods. The sample included 24 patients who underwent surgery at the Clinic of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Clinical Center of Vojvodina in Novi Sad in the period 2014 - 2017. The most common indications for laparoscopic assisted vaginal hysterectomy included mild uterine prolapse and uterine fibroids (15 patients, 62.5%). The surgery was carried out in two stages: the first, laparoscopic stage and the second, vaginal stage. The laparoscopic stage included mobilization of the bladder, ovaries and uterus to the level of uterine vessels. In the second stage, the cervix was approached vaginally and detached from the urinary bladder, after which the uterus with cervix and adnexa were removed through the vagina. Results. The average age of patients was 56.8 years; on average, the surgeries lasted 140 minutes and the mean blood loss was 190 ml. Two (8.3%) patients experienced bladder and ureteral injuries which were resolved by urologists. Laparoscopic assisted vaginal hysterectomy was the only procedure performed in 5 (20.8%) patients, whereas it was combined with anterior and/or posterior colporrhaphy in 14 (58.4%), with pelvic lymphadenectomy in 3 (12.5%) patients, and with uterine morcellation in 2 (8.3%) patients. Conclusion. There are no published controlled trials related to the use of laparoscopic assisted vaginal hysterectomy and total laparoscopic hysterectomy in Serbia. This paper presents the preliminary results of the laparoscopic assisted vaginal hysterectomy in 24 patients, comparing them with other techniques of hysterectomy conducted at the Clinic of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Clinical Center of Vojvodina in Novi Sad in the period 2014 - 2017. Laparoscopic assisted vaginal hysterectomy is a good option for surgical treatment of patient with combined pathology of genital organs.


The Athenaeum ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 270-295
Author(s):  
Michael Wheeler

This chapter examines the Athenæum during the period from the mid-1950s to the mid-1980s. While enjoying affectionate teasing by cartoonists, the club tended to stand upon its dignity in the 1950s. Although some aspects of the 'cultural revolution' that so disturbed Richard Cowell at the time created divisions among the membership, others suited the club in the long term, allowing it not only to survive but also to position itself for the process of reinvention that was to take place in later decades. During the 1960s and 1970s, life at the club carried on much as before, in spite of recurrent financial difficulties. The decorous tradition of 'lunch at the Athenæum' had become proverbial in public discourse, as published novels, memoirs, and diaries recorded conversations there in which bonds of friendship were strengthened, or matters of state and church quietly arranged in private.


2019 ◽  
Vol 72 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 11-16
Author(s):  
Srdjan Djurdjevic ◽  
Sanja Stojanovic ◽  
Marijana Basta-Nikolic ◽  
Dragan Nikolic

Introduction. Ovarian cancer is an intra-abdominal, chemosensitive, chronic disease and according to current protocols, it is primarily treated with surgery followed by adjuvant chemotherapy. In Serbia, 820 cases of ovarian cancer are newly diagnosed annually. The aim of the study is to present the results of surgical treatment in 304 patients with ovarian cancer, treated during a 15-year period (2003 - 2017) at the Clinic of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Clinical Center of Vojvodina in Novi Sad. Material and Methods. Before the operation, clinical, gynecological, ultrasonography examination and analysis of cancer antigen 125 blood concentrations were performed in all patients. Based on basic diagnostics, additional pelvic, abdominal and thoracic computed tomography or magnetic resonance imaging studies, together with colonoscopy if needed, were performed. The selection of the type and extent of surgical procedure was based on intraoperative assessment of the stage of disease, intraoperative histopathological confirmation of ovarian cancer, wish for fertility preservation and general patient?s condition. Exclusion criteria were histopathologically confirmed benign or borderline ovarian tumors, i. e. absence of cancer in the final microscopic specimen. Results. The patients? age ranged from 19 - 88 years, with a median of 53.4 years. According to the International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics staging, most patients had stage III - 98 (33.1%) and epithelial ovarian cancer - 240 (84.2%). The most common surgical procedures were hysterectomy with bilateral adnexectomy and omentectomy, whereas cytological analysis was performed in 138 (45.4%) treated patients. Complications were recorded in 13 (4.3%) operated patients with inflammation and wound seroma being the most common (4 patients - 1.3% of cases). Conclusion. Ovarian cancer treatment is planned individually, depending on the stage of the disease, histological tumor type, patient?s general condition, wish for fertility-sparing treatment and technical capacity of the institution where the treatment is performed.


2019 ◽  
Vol 72 (5-6) ◽  
pp. 185-189
Author(s):  
Dusanka Dobanovacki ◽  
Nada Vuckovic ◽  
Radmila Gudovic ◽  
Vladimir Sakac ◽  
Milanka Tatic ◽  
...  

Introduction. In 1907, the City Council of Novi Sad authorized the building of a new city hospital. The complex of hospital buildings was planned as a modern pavilion-style hospital with a 300 bed capacity. Foundation. The Pavilion 1 was intended for Admitting Department, Management and Administrative Departments. The facade of this building was decorated with a monumental mosaic of two angels. The Pavilion 2 was built for Departments of Surgery and Gynecology, whereas the Pavilion 3 included departments for patients with internal diseases, patients with skin and venereal diseases and maternity ward, but occasionally some infectious and neurological patients were treated there as well. In 1912, two new buildings were built: the first was the Antitrachoma Department and the other for patients with tuberculosis. During the First World War, the City Hospital was turned into a military hospital for the wounded, and also for those suffering from abdominal and typhoid fever, as well as from Spanish fever. Period between the two world wars. Since 1921, the founder of the hospital and its name have changed, and it has become the General State Hospital. After young physicians, educated at famous European medical centers, were employed, the Novi Sad State Hospital experienced a great advancement, especially in the field of surgery. In 1922, a new building was built, where the Bacteriological Station and the Pasteur Institute were established. The problems that the City Hospital was facing transferred to the General State Hospital, and were mostly financial. Before the Second World War, the State Hospital had a 455 bed capacity. After the Hungarian armed forces occupied Novi Sad in May 1941, the hospital director and all the ward physicians were replaced by Hungarian military doctors who worked there until September 1944.


2015 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 539-555 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kevin M. Flanagan

This article traces Ken Russell's explorations of war and wartime experience over the course of his career. In particular, it argues that Russell's scattered attempts at coming to terms with war, the rise of fascism and memorialisation are best understood in terms of a combination of Russell's own tastes and personal style, wider stylistic and thematic trends in Euro-American cinema during the 1960s and 1970s, and discourses of collective national experience. In addition to identifying Russell's recurrent techniques, this article focuses on how the residual impacts of the First and Second World Wars appear in his favoured genres: literary adaptations and composer biopics. Although the article looks for patterns and similarities in Russell's war output, it differentiates between his First and Second World War films by indicating how he engages with, and temporarily inhabits, the stylistic regime of the enemy within the latter group.


2013 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-48 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan Burton

Brainwashing assumed the proportions of a cultural fantasy during the Cold War period. The article examines the various political, scientific and cultural contexts of brainwashing, and proceeds to a consideration of the place of mind control in British spy dramas made for cinema and television in the 1960s and 1970s. Particular attention is given to the films The Mind Benders (1963) and The Ipcress File (1965), and to the television dramas Man in a Suitcase (1967–8), The Prisoner (1967–8) and Callan (1967–81), which gave expression to the anxieties surrounding thought-control. Attention is given to the scientific background to the representations of brainwashing, and the significance of spy scandals, treasons and treacheries as a distinct context to the appearance of brainwashing on British screens.


2016 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 294-316 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chik Collins ◽  
Ian Levitt

This article reports findings of research into the far-reaching plan to ‘modernise’ the Scottish economy, which emerged from the mid-late 1950s and was formally adopted by government in the early 1960s. It shows the growing awareness amongst policy-makers from the mid-1960s as to the profoundly deleterious effects the implementation of the plan was having on Glasgow. By 1971 these effects were understood to be substantial with likely severe consequences for the future. Nonetheless, there was no proportionate adjustment to the regional policy which was creating these understood ‘unwanted’ outcomes, even when such was proposed by the Secretary of State for Scotland. After presenting these findings, the paper offers some consideration as to their relevance to the task of accounting for Glasgow's ‘excess mortality’. It is suggested that regional policy can be seen to have contributed to the accumulation of ‘vulnerabilities’, particularly in Glasgow but also more widely in Scotland, during the 1960s and 1970s, and that the impact of the post-1979 UK government policy agenda on these vulnerabilities is likely to have been salient in the increase in ‘excess mortality’ evident in subsequent years.


2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 189-216
Author(s):  
Jamil Hilal

The mid-1960s saw the beginnings of the construction of a Palestinian political field after it collapsed in 1948, when, with the British government’s support of the Zionist movement, which succeeded in establishing the state of Israel, the Palestinian national movement was crushed. This article focuses mainly on the Palestinian political field as it developed in the 1960s and 1970s, the beginnings of its fragmentation in the 1990s, and its almost complete collapse in the first decade of this century. It was developed on a structure characterized by the dominance of a center where the political leadership functioned. The center, however, was established outside historic Palestine. This paper examines the components and dynamics of the relationship between the center and the peripheries, and the causes of the decline of this center and its eventual disappearance, leaving the constituents of the Palestinian people under local political leadership following the collapse of the national representation institutions, that is, the political, organizational, military, cultural institutions and sectorial organizations (women, workers, students, etc.) that made up the PLO and its frameworks. The paper suggests that the decline of the political field as a national field does not mean the disintegration of the cultural field. There are, in fact, indications that the cultural field has a new vitality that deserves much more attention than it is currently assigned.


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