Dr. Nikola Dekleva (19 December 1926,

Leskovac Leskovac (Serbian Cyrillic alphabet, Serbian Cyrillic: Лесковац, ) is a List of cities in Serbia, city and the administrative center of the Jablanica District in Southern Serbia (Geographical Region), southern Serbia. According to the 202 ...

– 31 December 2003, Dobrota near Kotor) was a Serbian surgeon, professor of medicine, creator of hiperbaric medicine in Serbia, and a recognized expert inside and outside the borders of Yugoslavia. He was also the founder and director of the Center for

Hyperbaric Medicine Hyperbaric medicine is medical treatment in which an ambient pressure greater than sea level atmospheric pressure is a necessary component. The treatment comprises hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT), the medical use of oxygen at an ambient pressure ...

at the Clinical Center "Zemun", in 1974.

Early life and education

Nikola Dekleva came from a medical family. His father Dusan Dekleva was a famous physician and surgeon, and at the time of Nikola's birth, he was the head of Surgery Department of the Hospital in Leskovac. Nikola Dekleva graduated from School of Medicine in Belgrade, and then specialized in surgery.

References

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