[Optimization of treatment of acute poisoning with severe psychodisleptics]. / Optimizatsiya lecheniya ostrykh otravlenii psikhodisleptikami tyazheloi stepeni.

OBJECTIVE: To increase the efficacy of acute poisoning with severe psychodisleptics. MATERIAL AND METHODS: Fifty-two patients with acute psychoactive substance poisoning were studied. Patients of the main group (n=27) received cytoflavin infusion in combination with inhaled sedation with sevoflurane in addition to conventional therapy. The comparison group consisted of 25 patients who received conventional therapy. RESULTS AND CONCLUSION: Augmentation of conventional therapy with cytoflavin in combination with inhaled sedation with sevoflurane, affecting various links in the pathogenesis of acute severe poisoning with psychodisleptics, made it possible to cope in a shorter time.

Comparative study of noise in low-current Townsend discharge in nitrogen and argon.

Noise in a low-current Townsend discharge in argon and nitrogen is studied. Experiments were performed in a "semiconductor-gas-discharge" structure constituted by a short plane-parallel discharge gap and a high-resistivity photosensitive semiconductor electrode. The noise of optical emission from gas excited by the discharge was investigated with a photomultiplier. Experiments were done at the room temperature of the discharge structure. According to the obtained data, the noise of discharge glow in Ar is astonishingly low-similar to that earlier found for the cryogenic discharge in this gas. At equal time-average photon fluxes emitted by discharges in both gases, the noise of gas glow in nitrogen substantially exceeds the corresponding value for argon. A statistical processing of signals of glow brightness for the two gases revealed the origin of this difference: While the power spectral density of noise in nitrogen is specified by a band of frequencies with the increased density, in argon it is nearly constant in an extended frequency range. At the same time, intensity of noise is practically the same for both gases in the ranges of low and high frequencies. The relationship of the increased noise in nitrogen with a low critical current density for oscillatory instability of the Townsend discharge in this gas is considered.

Self-organized patterns in successive bifurcations in planar semiconductor-gas-discharge device.

The formation of dissipative structures is investigated in a planar semiconductor-gas-discharge device at room temperature. The width of the discharge gap is about 1 mm. The gap is filled with nitrogen at a pressure that corresponds to the discharge operation at the right branch of the Paschen curve. Wafers of semi-insulating GaAs that exhibit linear transport in the whole range of voltage and current studied are used as semiconductor electrodes. In addition to the earlier investigated Andronov-Hopf bifurcation, a different mode of self-organization of the device is observed, where the transport of charge proceeds through an ensemble of pulsating current filaments. The corresponding critical current for the present bifurcation does not depend on the polarity of the bias voltage, while the spatiotemporal dynamics of a pattern differs substantially for a change in the polarity. Pulsating filaments can form a spatially ordered pattern when the GaAs electrode is under the positive potential. We also observe self-organization modes, where pulsating filaments form an irregular spatiotemporal dynamics of a pattern. The data obtained are briefly discussed in the frame of corresponding theoretical results in the field.

Dynamics and stability of the Townsend discharge in nitrogen in narrow gaps.

This paper investigates the dynamics of the Townsend discharge in nitrogen in narrow gaps. To provide stability of discharge in a broad range of current, we apply a plane-parallel structure, one of the electrodes of which is made of a high-resistivity gallium arsenide. The results of experiments are analyzed in the framework of theory [Yu. P. Raizer et al., Tech. Phys. 51, 185 (2006)], which considers the dynamics of discharge in short nitrogen-filled gaps of similar structures. According to the theory, a key parameter of discharge dynamics is time ϑ that defines the rate of discharge response to perturbations. In our work, time ϑ is experimentally found by analyzing the noise spectrum of the discharge glow in the stable and spatially uniform state of the structure. This characteristic time depends linearly on the discharge gap width, which corroborates conclusions based on the standard model of Townsend discharge. However, its values are substantially shorter compared to those predicted by theory. The relationship between ϑ and experimentally observed critical current density for the oscillatory instability, jcr, is applied to find the discharge negative differential resistance for a set of parameters of the discharge gap.