Pietro Segantini
Pietro Segantini (born August 9, 1940 in Pallanzo , Piedmont ; † May 11, 1995 in Sils , Upper Engadin ) was a Swiss surgeon , alpinist and president of the Union Internationale des Associations d'Alpinisme (UIAA) from 1990 to 1995.
Life and activities
Segantini grew up with his sisters Gioconda and Romana in Maloja as the son of the painter Gottardo Segantini and Charlotte, born Poertner. His grandfather was Giovanni Segantini .
After studying medicine, he specialized in surgeon and sports medicine. He became a senior physician in surgery at the University Hospital Zurich and an association physician for the Swiss Ice Hockey Association . In the early 1980s , a group of mountain-enthusiastic physicians came together in the medical team at the University Hospital Zurich under Segantini and Oswald Oelz , who was senior physician and deputy clinic director between 1978 and 1991.
Segantini was commissioned by the SAC to institutionalize mountain medicine for the Union Internationale des Associations d'Alpinisme (UIAA). In 1980, this resulted in the medical commission of all mountaineering associations, the UIAA MedCom. In this context, Segantini organized the first international congress in Lugano in 1981.
In 1984 Segantini delegated his colleague Bruno Durrer to the congress on "High Altitude Deterioration" (Rivolier, Cerrettelli, Foray, Segantini) in Chamonix. There Durrer met André Zen Ruffinen, an active member of the GRIMM (Groupe Romand d'Interventions Médicales en Montagne), which was already a loose association of physicians enthusiastic about the mountains. They discussed the idea of a coalition of mountain doctors. Among them, together with Hans Jacomet, the idea of offering mountain medicine courses for doctors was born. The first mountain medicine course was held in 1990 under the patronage of the SAC.
In December 1994 the Swiss Society for Mountain Medicine (SGGM) was founded at Segantini in the Uster District Hospital as a national forum for mountain doctors and interested laypeople. Various working groups deal with mountain medical topics such as altitude, cold, mountain rescue medicine, expedition and trekking medicine, mountaineering with children and the corresponding training content. The first SGGM course took place in the Hotel Tiefenbach with the speakers Peter Bärtsch and Oswald Oelz.
Segantini was President of the International Society for Ski Traumatology and Winter Sports Medicine SITEMSH. From 1990 to 1995 he was UIAA President and 1995 honorary member.
One day after the two chief surgeons in surgery were unexpectedly discharged by the district hospital, Pietro Segantini was found dead in the Upper Engadin.
souvenir
- The “Coppa Pietro Segantini” ice hockey tournament is held regularly in Maloja in memory of Pietro Segantini.
Fonts
- with Nicola Biasca: The prognostic significance of isokinetic examinations for assessing the ability to work and exercise in the Patello-Femoral Syndrome . Swiss Society for Accident Medicine and Occupational Diseases, Bern 1989.
- with Nicola Biasca: Ice hockey-specific shoulder traumatology. Swiss Society for Sports Medicine SGSM; Lucerne 1989.
- with Nicola Biasca: Possibilities and necessities of sport-specific accident prophylaxis in ice hockey . International Society for Ski Traumatology and Winter Sports Medicine SITEMSH, Garmisch 1990.
- with Hans-Juergen Richter, Roger Berbig : Bilateral Radial Nerve Compression Syndrome in an Elite Swimmer: A Case Report . The American Journal of Sports Medicine, July 1, 2002.
literature
- Bruno Durrer: Mountain doctor with passion. A life for the Lauterbrunnen valley . Orell Füssli Verlag, Zurich 2018, ISBN 978-3-280-05618-9
Web links
- Jungfrau newspaper from November 4, 2014: Twenty years young and more necessary than ever
- SRF Karusell from June 1, 1984: Rescue of an injured alpinist from a crevasse by the Swiss Air Rescue Service (Rega): Conversation with doctor Pietro Segantini
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bruno Durrer: Mountain doctor out of passion: A life for the Lauterbrunnen valley
- ↑ SGGM: How it all began
- ↑ Swiss Society for Mountain Medicine. Société suisse de médicine de montagne, 04–2014
- ^ International Society for Ski Traumatology and Winter Sports Medicine SITEMSH
- ↑ Swiss radio and television from May 11, 1995: Discharge of the two chief surgeons in the district hospital. Head physician Pietro Segantini's suicide
- ^ Bregalia: 45th Coppa Pietro Segantini , accessed June 18, 2020
- ^ The American Journal of Sports Medicine
Charles Egmond d'Arcis (1932–1964) | Edouard Wyss-Dunant (1964–1968) | Albert Eggler (1968–1972) | Jean Juge (1972–1976) | Pierre Bossus (1976-1984) | Carlo Sganzini (1984-1990) | Pietro Segantini (1990-1995) | Ian McNaught-Davis (1995-2004) | Alan Blackshaw (2004-2005) | Mike Mortimer (2005-2011) | Frits Vrijlandt (since 2012)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Segantini, Pietro |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss alpinist, sports medicine specialist, UIAA President |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 9, 1940 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Pallanzo , Piedmont |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 11, 1995 |
| Place of death | Sils |