[Surgical ward in Bjelovar during the World War II].
During the World War II, surgeons, secondary physicians and other medical personnel of the Surgical-Gynecologic Department of the Bjelovar General Hospital provided continuous surgical care to civilians and soldiers in the city of Bjelovar and its surroundings in the Northwest Croatia, respecting all medical, deontological and war stipulations. In the period 1941-1945, 850 shotgun and explosion war wounds were treated in the Bjelovar Hospital. Fifty-three major surgical procedures were performed in general and lumbar anesthesia, and a large number in local anesthesia. As a consequence of shotgun and explosion wounds 116 people died in the Hospital.
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Klinika za ginekologiju i porodnistvo Medicinskog fakulteta i Opće bolnice Sveti Duh u Zagrebu.
D017523:Croatia; D013502:General Surgery / Q000266:history*; D049673:History, 20th Century; D008887:Military Medicine / Q000266:history*; D047789:World War II