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Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care №3

  • Head of the Department: Aleksandr Shalkevich                                                      Chief nurse of the Department: Viktoriya Vargan 

The Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care №3 deals with the treatment of children of all age groups with congenital heart diseases, heart rhythm disorders. Annually about 600 patients with congenital heart disease receive high-tech specialized care in our department. The department is equipped for intensive therapy of any level of complexity. In the department there is an isolator, and a mini-operating room.

Department staff

The Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care №3 (with the group of extracorporeal circulation) of pediatric surgery deals with all kinds of anesthesia in children of different age groups, carrying out anesthesia for children with congenital heart defects, heart rhythm disorders, congenital malformations of the abdominal cavity, lungs, purulent inflammatory diseases of skin and subcutaneous tissue, planned and emergency operations on the heart and organs of the abdominal cavity.

The group of extracorporeal circulation is engaged in carrying out artificial circulation in children with congenital heart defects and respiratory organs of all age groups, providing renal replacement therapy (artificial kidney).

Annually about 600 patients with congenital heart disease, about 5000 children with diseases of the abdominal cavity, lungs, skin and subcutaneous fat receive high-tech specialized care in our department.

Department Services

Due to longstanding and successful work of the team, the clinic has accumulated a unique experience of intensive care of any complexity, including:


  • presurgical preparation

  • high-tech intensive care and resuscitation services after cardiac surgery for children of all age groups

  • use of extracorporeal circulation methods: ECMO, right-, left-, biventricular bypass

  • use of 'artificial kidney'

  • application of new methods of artificial ventilation: non-invasive ventilation, oscillatory ventilation