Stefan Koczorowski

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Stefan Koczorowski (* 1910 ; † August 17, 1997 in Breslau ) was a Polish surgeon and university professor.

Life

After completing his second year of studies at the Jan Kazimierz University in Lviv , Koczorowski came to Tadeusz Ostrowski's clinic as a volunteer . There he worked after completing his studies, and it was there that the collaboration and friendship with Wiktor Bross began . In 1937, Bross and Koczorowski published the first joint publication . When Bross completed his habilitation in 1938 , Koczorowski received his doctorate . In 1944 they built a hospital in an Iwonitz sanatorium. They provided surgical aid for partisans , for the civilian population and for the soldiers on the approaching Eastern Front.

Wroclaw

Together they built the surgical clinic of the Medical University of Wroclaw at Ulica Skłodowskiej-Curie 66 in 1946 , where they worked until their retirement (1973/1980). Bross led the planning, Koczorowski supported him in all groundbreaking interventions. He later took over the publications. The fundamentally different characters complemented each other. The even and very modest Koczorowski got along well with the restless and choleric Bross. "Koczorowski is even aging for Bross" - it was said. Superstition was no stranger to either. Regarding deaths in pioneering cardiac surgery, Bross said that “the first has the second”. For Koczorowski, it was a bad sign if the first admission to the on-call duty was a woman - then the duty became particularly difficult. 1961 occurred in the operation of an aortic valve stenosis to ventricular fibrillation . The clinic's own prototype defibrillator and direct cardiopulmonary resuscitation failed. Koczorowski suggested the use of the city power line . The anesthetist (Doz. A. Aronski) implemented the suggestion immediately - successfully. The commissurotomy was possible. The patient survived.

Clinic Director

When Bross retired in 1973, Koczorowski became the sole head of General Surgery II. He followed his friend's regulations and often asked for his advice. Up until then he had mainly been involved in thoracic surgery , but now he has concentrated on visceral surgery . In 1980 Koczorowski retired. As before his retirement, he visited the main library of the Medical Academy on Parkstrasse every day. As the only employee of the academy, he had free access to all of the library's archives. Like his 250 works, some of which were translated, his lectures and seminars were characterized by clarity and good language. He responded politely to impudent self-indulgence: "Sir, your self-confidence is overdeveloped."

Honors

Koczorowski Library

In the year Koczorowski died, his successor Bogdan Łazarkiewicz asked the dean to name the main library of the Medical Academy Koczorowski. The Faculty Council unanimously accepted the proposal and forwarded it to the Senate . It went unanswered. In January 1998, the doctors at Wroclaw Surgery decided to name their library after Stefan Koczorowski.

literature

  • Bogdan Łazarkiewicz: Prof. dr hab. Stefan Koczorowski, kierownik Kliniki Chirurgii Ogólnej II . Gazeta Uczelniana kwiecień 2014, pp. 14-16.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Experimental study on hyperglycaemia after head trauma .
  2. a b c d Bogdan Łazarkiewicz: Prof. dr hab. Stefan Koczorowski, kierownik Kliniki Chirurgii Ogólnej II (translated by Kinga Schubert, Neubrandenburg)