History

  • the University of Tartu (Universitas Dorpatensis) was re-opened, with Georg Friedrich Parrot as its first rector.

  • Medical scientist Daniel Georg Balk founded and opened the Clinicum Universitatis Dorpatensis in Burger Dahlström’s house in Tartu, on Riga Hill.

  • The Clinicum Universitatis Dorpatensis was moved to Toome, a separate stone house rebuilt from the barracks.

  • The Women’s Clinic was separated from the Clinicum. It was moved to the adjoining house, which was specially rebuilt for it.

    The name of the Clinicum was no longer officially used.

  • Opening of the Eye Clinic

  • Extension and reconstruction of the Surgery Clinic in Toome

  • Construction of two buildings of the Maarjamõisa hospitals

  • Opening of the second Internal Medicine and Surgery Clinic in Maarjamõisa

  • Establishment and furnishing of the Neurology Clinic in Maarjamõisa

  • Transition to the Estonian language in the medical records and the transaction of affairs

  • The first gastroscopy at the first Surgery Clinic of the University of Tartu in Toome

  • Completion of the Eye and Ear-Nose-Throat Clinic

  • First endotracheal anaesthesia

  • First lung resection

  • Establishment of the respiratory centre of the Neurology Clinic, introduction of modern intensive care in the treatment of polio, severe cerebellar trauma, and acute intoxication

  • First successful resuscitation of a patient from clinical death

  • Cardiac probing, extracorporeal circulation

  • Introduction of artificial kidney

  • First kidney transplant

  • First complete endoprosthesis of a hip joint

  • First coronary artery bypass grafting

  • First cardiac pacemaker installation

  • First prosthetic replacement of heart valves

  • First knee replacement

  • Introduction of computed tomography for scanning the brain

  • Introduction of a laser device for eye surgery

  • The Tartu University Hospital was re-established as an umbrella organisation.

  • Digital angiography

  • Introduction of sonography for organs

  • The first baby at the Women’s Clinic was the result of in vitro fertilization (IVF)

  • Establishment of the Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Clinic

  • First bone marrow transplant in Tartu

  • The Government of the Republic of Estonia, the University of Tartu, and the City of Tartu signed a cooperation protocol and on 22 December 1998, the Foundation Tartu University Hospital was established.

  • First liver transplantation

  • First lung transplantation

  • First transluminal implantation of pulmonary artery valve

  • First simultaneous pancreas-kidney transplantation

  • First lower jaw joint replacement surgery