Background
ERISTAVI, Konstantin was born in 1889 in village Salominao, Georgia, United States.
ERISTAVI, Konstantin was born in 1889 in village Salominao, Georgia, United States.
1914 graduated Medical Faculty, Derpt University.
Organized railroad first-aid posts. Founded Central Blood Transfusion Station in Tbilisi with branches on Transcaucasion Railroad. Founded oncological outpatients deputy., for transport workers.
1932-1937 member, Transcaucasion Central Executive Comt. 1950-1955 Chairman,Department of Biological and Medical Science, Georgia Academy of Sciences. 1959 attended 18th International Congress of Surgeons, Munich.
Deputy, and Chairman, Permanent Commission on Public Health and Social Security, Georgia Supreme Soviet of 1938, 1947, 1951, 1955 and 1959 convocation. Chairman, Learned Council, Georgia Ministry of Health. Chairman, Bureau,Department of Medical Science, Georgia Academy of Sciences.
Since 1960 Chairman, All-Union Society of Surgeons. Chairman, International Association, of Surgeons. Со-Editor, “Surgery” section, “Bolshaya meditsinskaya entsiklopediya” (Large Medical Encyclopedia), 2nd edition.
Member Editor Council, journal “Problemy gematologii i perelivaniya krovi” (Problems of Hematology and Blood Transfusion). Worked on problems of: thoracic and abdominal surgery. Treatment of burns; infected wounds.
Traumatology; hypothermia. Transplanation of organs and tissues. Preservation and substitution of major vessels.
Experimental exclusion of the heart. Experimental and clinical oncology. Blood diseases; history of medicine.
Developed an original method for plastic operation of the common bile duct. Designed a hypothermia device. Popularized local anesthesia in Georgia.
Pioneer of various complicated plastic operations in Transcaucasia, including formation of an artificial esophagus. 1914-1918 intern in Tsarist Army. 1918-1921 intern, Surgery Department, Tiflis Railroad Hospital.
1921-1929 senior Assistant, 1929-1941 Professor, Chair of General Surgery, Medical Faculty, Tbilisi University, now Tbilisi Medicine Institute. 1941-1945 consultant at various rear hospitals.
Since religion offers a complete set of answers to the problems of purpose, morality, origins, or science, it discourages exploration of those areas by suppressing curiosity, denies its followers a broader perspective, and prevents social, moral and scientific progress.
Member, Communist Party, since 1940.
Marxism–Leninism as the only truth could not, by its very nature, become outdated.
Member, Communist Party, since 1940.