The history of orthopedics and traumatology in Iasi

In Iasi, Orthopedics-Traumatology later appeared as a distinct specialty. In a first stage, orthopedics developed in surgical clinics - the period of surgical clinics (1879-1970). In each surgical clinic there were surgeons who dedicated themselves to orthopedic pathology: Radu Dimitrie, Theodor Căpățînă (Surgery I), Filimon Cicerone, Eusebiu Neagoe, Iulian Grădinaru (Surgery II), Paul Trosc (Surgery III). In 1967, at the Charity Hospital, two surgical services were carried out: The Surgery and Children's Orthopedic Clinic (Th. Economu) and the Osteoarticular Tuberculosis Clinic (A. Berneaga). Also, this year, 1970, in Iasi, the construction of a new medical unit will be completed - the Children's Hospital where the Clinic of Pediatric Surgery and Orthopedics will be moved. The Charity Hospital is disbanded and the Emergency Clinical Hospital will be established on the site of the former establishment. A second period begins - the transition period (1970-1983) - characterized by the search for optimal solutions, which involved changes and temporary until the establishment of orthopedic clinics. The newly established unit, the Emergency Clinical Hospital, was designed to include three departments: General Surgery IV (I. Jitaru), Medical Clinic (G. Popa) and an Orthopedics and Traumatology Clinic (conf. Gh. Floareș). This clinic treated all surgical pathology of orthopedics, traumatology and had didactic activity with fourth year students. The Orthopedics-Traumatology Department had 40 beds. There is also an Orthopedics-Traumatology department, with 40 beds, located in the Dr. C. I. Parhon Hospital run first by A. Berneaga and then by P. Trosc. Dimitrie Radu, Iulian Grădinaru and G. Herescu worked in this department. A new Recovery Hospital appears in Iasi. The new hospital also has an Orthopedics-Traumatology department (with 111 beds) where the orthopedics department will be transferred from Parhon Hospital. In 1983, Professor Gh. Floareș opted to move the clinic from the Emergency Hospital to the new Rehabilitation Hospital. At the Emergency Hospital there remains an Orthopedics-Traumatology Department staffed by a single doctor - Nicolae Georgescu who will develop a new team, which also have teaching activity: T. Cozma, L. Stratan, P. Sîrbu, Ovidiu Alexa, Paul Corlaci, Cezar Popescu. There are eight resident doctors (Elena Glod, Luminița Lăbușcă, Victor Pencu, G. Ghinoiu, C. Nanu, T. Bunescu, R. Malancea, L. Pacu). During this period (1992-1996) a basic A.O. course was organized in Iași. internationally, on which occasion many orthopedists are persuaded to routinely use modern means of osteosynthesis. Two more doctors come in this clinic: B. Puha, R. Asaftei, D. Cionca and A. Ciubara. After 1989, the ATOM was born: The Association of Traumatologists and Orthopedists of Moldova, congresses and postgraduate courses are organized. In 2012 the Orthopedic Clinic moved to the St. Spiridon Emergency Clinical Hospital (Prof. Ovidiu Alexa). The orthopedic clinic at the Recovery Hospital treats chronic osteoarticular pathology (prof Paul Sirbu).