[Disputable problems of providing medical services in extreme situations]. / Spornye voprosy meditsinskogo obespecheniia ékstremal'nykh situatsii.

The paper considers the conceptual approaches to medical provision of emergency relief operations. The author doubts the rightfulness of some theses in special publications and states his views on issues related to the organization of medical care in the zone of catastrophes, its amount and the training of personnel. It is suggested to conduct an open discussion on the problem of medical provision during liquidation of consequences of accidents, natural disasters, catastrophes and other emergency situations.

[Traumatic shock in multiple fractures of bones of the limbs in children]. / Travmaticheskii shok pri mnozhestvennykh perelomakh kostei konechnostei u detei.

An analysis of 11230 case histories of children aged to 15 who had fractures of the extremity bones has shown multiple fractures of the extremity bones in 3% of the patients. It was established that traumatic shock in children with multiple fractures of the extremities was diagnosed in 14,1% (I degree--in 51%, II--in 42,6% and III--in 6,4%). The article concerns the incidence and severity of shock in children of different age groups as well as fractures of bones of various character and localization.