[Applying the new conicotomy kit is the key to solve the problem of asphyxia at the prehospital stage]. / Primenenie novogo nabora dlya konikotomii ­ klyuch k resheniyu problemy asfiksii na dogospital'nom etape.

OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study is to analyze the incidence of asphyxia, therapeutic measures, the outcomes of treatment of the wounded with impaired secure airway and to assess the effectiveness of the prototype: «one-time set to eliminate asphyxia (conicotomy)¼ UK-02 (state defense order LLC «NOVOPLAST-M¼). MATERIAL AND METHODS: The basis of the analysis was the material of 2047 case histories-clinical test data on armed conflicts of Military Field Surgery Department of the Military Medical Academy named after S. M. Kirov. Development and evaluation of the effectiveness of the prototype set of UK-02 to eliminate asphyxia in the course of experimental studies was carried out on 6 biological objects (pigs). RESULTS: The incidence of asphyxia is 1.5% according to national data and 8-13% according to the results of studies by foreign authors. CONCLUSION: Complete and service equipment-a one-time set of UK-02 (to eliminate asphyxia (conicotomy) will reduce prehospital mortality and significantly improve the outcomes of treatment of the wounded with severe damage to organs and tissues of the maxillofacial region, ENT organs and pathological processes accompanied by impaired secure airway.

[Comparative characteristics of domestic and foreign means of the first aid on the battlefield and in the epicenter of emergency situation].

Comparative characteristics of domestic and foreign means of the first aid on the battlefield and in the epicentre of emergency situation. The results of comparative analysis of domestic and foreign means of the first aid on the battlefield and in the epicentre of emergency situation are presented. It was found that the first aid means used in the Armed Forces are effective and allow performing specified activities, regardless of the qualifications and assisting skills. Modern innovative means of providing emergency and urgent care may be used on the stages of medical evacuation of military and military hospitals.

LOW-INVASIVE TECHNOLOGIES OF INITIAL SURGICAL D-BRIDEMENT IN POLYTRAUMA AT THE FIRST STAGE OF PROGRAMMED MULTISTAGED SURGICAL TREATMENT

The authors described the variants of initial surgical d-bridement on the basis of experience of treatment of 183 patients of multistaged treatment program.

Maxillofacial gunshot wounds in peacetime.

The treatment of maxillofacial gunshot wounds in peacetime is an urgent and difficult problem. The emergence of new types of civilian weapons and relatively small current clinical experience does not allow generating recommendations for the treatment of this pathology. It presents a statistical analysis of injuries in St. Petersburg 2004-2014 restricted firearms destruction and experimental study of the harmful effect of these weapons on the fabric maxillofacial experimental animals (pigs). The features of the clinical picture, diagnosis and surgical treatment of wounds of the maxillofacial region, caused by a firearm -restricted lesions and wounds with extensive tissue damage maxillofacial caused a hunting weapon are considered.

[An improvement of experimental model for a study of local hemostatic agents' effectiveness].

With the help of tests on 10 big biological objects (sheep) was studied a modern model of severe lateral damage (6 mm diameter) of femoral artery. Within 45 seconds blood loss was 432.5 +/- 258.2 ml. The usage of domestic local hemostatic agent--"Gemostop" based on zeolite and "Gemofleks" based on chitosan. The total three-hour mortality was 50%. Primary hemostasis was recorded only in 20% of biological objects, the final hemostasis in 60%. Thus, the model of standard 6-mm lateral damage of femoral artery with a free primary hemmorage during 45 seconds should be considered as. optimal for evaluating the effectiveness of modern hemostatic agents.

[Safety criteria for blood refusion in military field surgery and trauma surgery].

Massive intracavitary hemorrhage in case if severe concomitant injury is the most frequent cause of death. Necessity of blood loss replacement requires effective and safe methods. One of them is blood reinfusion - technically less complicated method. The article shows advantages of using the hardware and filtration methods of blood sampling and reinfusion, developed scale rapid diagnosis of the level of hemolysis of autologous blood. Using of the method of filtration blood sampling provides 2X minimal amount of free hemoglobin than using an aspirator and reinfusion of blood with the contents therein to free hemoglobin 2.0g/ L prevents the risk of developing the syndrome and massive blood transfusion reduces the incidence of deaths at 11%. In patients with massive intracavitary hemorrhage it is advisable to use the method of semi-quantitative rapid analysis of free hemoglobin color scale.

[Pathogenesis and early diagnosis of deep vein thrombosis in case of polytrauma].

Pathogenesis and early diagnosis characteristics of acute deep vein thrombosis (advt) have been studied in 323 polytrauma patients (iss: 29.4 +/- 2.0 score). Acute vein thrombosis, confirmed by us examination, was determined in 22.3% of patients (in the case of severe craniocerebral trauma--scct--12.6%, extremity trauma--60.5%, spinal trauma 75%, severe sepsis--25%). Despite the complex diagnosis and prophylaxis (thrombus removal, thrombosed veins ligation, external iliac vein and inferior vena cava clipping, permanent and removable cava-filters positioning) pulmonary artery thromboembolism (pate) developed in 3.1%. ADVT in patients with polytrauma developed as a pathogenic basis of systemic inflammatory response syndrome (sirs), which was observed to be associated with endothelium damage and thrombophilia. Hence, thrombophilia values (high levels of crp, f.viiia, D-dimer, low levels of antithrombin iii--at-iii), which are characteristic of sirs, lose their informativeness in the early diagnosis of advt and pate risks identification. In this regard, early advt diagnosis in polytrauma should be based on doppler study results, and the adequacy of anticoagulant and antiplatelet therapy should be determined by the levels of crp, f.viiia, D-dimer, activated partial thromboplastin time--aptt, anti- xa heparin activity, international normalized ratio--inr, platelet aggregation, thrombodynamic potential, at-iii.

[Perspective technologies of surgical care to the wounded].

A goal of this study is to review perspective technologies of surgical care to the wounded on the basis of an analysis of the experience in medical support in local armed conflicts and a study of the achievements of modern trauma surgery. The study is based on the analysis of personal experience, results of scientific researches being carried out in the Military Medical Academy and a comparison review of available papers and works in the field of our study. Perspective technologies of surgical care to the wounded are strongly dependent on the pre-hospital care: high technologies in personal medical equipment, special disposable devices used in case of life-threatening consequences of injuries and traumas during emergency medical care and advanced trauma management. The main innovation of the last ten years in war surgery is considered to be damage control surgery. Wide application of abbreviated surgical operations (the first phase of damage control surgery) makes the use of remote surgery (telesurgery) for treatment of the wounded more practicable. Increasing effectiveness of military surgeon education is based on the use of all possible achievements in education and information technologies. Feedback in surgical care to the wounded is supplied with analysis of its results in the medical Register of the wounded military.

[The use of local hemostatic agent "Celox" in experimental model of grade IV liver injury].

Ongoing intra-abdominal bleeding is the main life-threatening sequence of blunt abdominal trauma. The use of local hemostatic agents allows achieving fast and reliable hemorrhage control in case of parenchymatous organs injury. We investigated the efficacy of a dressing "Celox Gauze" in an experimental model of grade IV liver injury in large animals in the setting of coagulopathy. We used the following experimental model: 30-35% of blood volume was withdrawn followed by severe liver injury and hemostatic agent application. Laboratory tests were controlled in three endpoints. Hemostasis was evaluated in 2 days. "Celox Gauze" was effective for hemorrhage control in 100% of cases. All animals survived until the end of the experiment. Perihepatic packing with "Celox Gauze" applied is more effective to control hemorrhage than packing only. It has been noted lower volume of blood loss, lower decrease of red blood cells in animals of "Celox Gauze" group. We noted no adverse effects. Histological analysis showed the absence of any significant local hepatic damage. In whole the local hemostatic agent "Celox Gauze" has been shown highly effective in the model of parenchymatous bleeding. Additional studies with more number of animals are warranted to confirm our results.

[Damage control in field surgery].

Damage control surgery (DCS) is an important option in the store of war surgery and surgery of trauma. The main purpose of our investigation was to specify the percentage of the injured who need DCS. We performed retrospective study of the patients in the combat operations in Chechnya (1994-2002) and in peacetime (2005-2010). Total lethality in group with the standard surgical approach was 62.3%. It was significantly higher than the lethality in group of patients who underwent DCS - 50.0% (p < 0.05). Thus, the experience of DCS in War Surgery Department confirms that DCS is perspective tendency in treatment of patients with severe and extremely severe trauma, and allows decreasing lethality in 12.3%.

[Treatment of extracranial gunshot wounds caused by non-lethal weapon].

The deaths happened as a result of wounds caused by non-lethal weapon (NLW) are mainly associated with severe and extremely severe damage of brain. However, vast number of specific problems occurs in cases of extracranial gunshot wounds caused by NLW. Taking into account little physicians' experience, and absence of standard approaches to treatment of these wounds till now. This paper embraces peculiarities of clinical signs, diagnosis and surgical treatment of cervical, truncal, and extremities wounds caused by NLW. Our investigation allowed to draw a conclusion that gunshot wounds caused by NLW have similar characteristics. These ones are the same with signs of wounds caused by small arms. Surgical treatment of wounds caused by NLW is based on the standard approaches to treatment of low-velocity missile wounds.

[Sanitary-bacteriological control of artificial ventilation apparatuses in the prevention of nosocomial respiratory tract infections in a surgical hospital].

Airway damage in intensive care unit patients at surgical hospitals is a common manifestation of nosocomial pyoseptic infections. Artificial ventilation (AV) apparatuses used in a therapeutic and diagnostic process are vital to the transmission of their pathogens. The paper shows that various units and surfaces of the apparatuses are differently contaminated with nosocomial microorganisms. In this connection, their microbial contamination should be evaluated without fail when the higher rate of nosocomial respiratory tract infections is recorded in patients. Decontamination of the most important parts and surfaces of AV apparatuses and control over medical staff's hand scrubbing can upgrade the quality of measures to prevent respiratory tract infections in patients.

["Low infusion resuscitation" in the treatment of wounded and injured with acute massive blood loss].

Acute massive blood loss (AMBL) of severe and extremely severe degree is still one of the leading causes of unfavourable traumatic disease. 95% of potentially preventable lethal outcomes in severe gunshot trauma is reported to depend largely on the adequacy of AMBL correction (Howard P., 2003). An alternate approach to the issue studied was the development of preparations of hyperosmotic saline solutions (7.5% sodium chloride) combined with hyperoncotic colloid solutions (dextrans, hetastarch). As a result, solutions were developed (so-called, hyperosmotic hyperoncotic volume expanders) allowing to achieve rapid and stable volemic and hemodynamic effect in case of low volume infusion (usually, 4 ml/kg of body weight). The present study allowed to conclude that "low infusion resuscitation" technique in patients with multiple trauma accompanied by acute massive blood loss of extremely severe degree enables to reduce lethality, to achieve early subcompesatory hemodynamic state in acute traumatic disease.

[Significance of endovideosurgery in treatment of surgical infections].

Results of treatment of 186 patients treated in the clinic in the period from 2000 through 2005 for infectious complications after severe combined injuries who underwent 264 operations have been studied. It was established that the endovideosurgical method of sanitation of the infection focus was used in 50% of cases at an average. The investigation of surgical treatment of infectious complications in patients with severe surgical pathology has shown high efficiency of endovideosurgical method for treatment of such complications in the third period of wound dystrophy. The proposed endovideosurgical methods of sanitation of the infection focus have a number of advantages over open ones--low traumatism, less number of postoperative infectious complications, less duration of the postoperative period.

[Surgical care rendered to the wounded during the antiterrorist operations in the Northern Caucasus in the distant medical battalions of divisions. (Communication 3)].

Broad usage of helicopters for an evacuation of wounded from the battle orders and forward aid station directly to Multiprophyle Military Hospitals of 1-st level during armed conflicts on Northern Caucasus has essentially changed the purposes and nature of a medical care to wounded in Separate Medical Battalions (SMB) of divisions. The primary goal of SMB became valuable preparedness of wounded to an evacuation from the battle orders of a division, that was reached by moving out of the surgeons and anesthesiologists to regimental aid station and medical companies. For adding up during armed conflicts on Northern Caucasus of medico tactical conditions it was justified: 73% wounded, admitted in SMB with damages of minimal and mean severity and not required emergency operations, after rendering them of initial physician care were evacuated by helicopters to Multiprophyle Military Hospitals of 1-st level. The analysis of experience of three SMB in Armed conflict 1999-2002 has shown, that the measures of initial surgical care should appear only for saving life of injured under the specially designed indications and with observance of a number of the relevant technical features, directional on acceleration and decreasing of surgical operations severity.

[Surgical care rendered to the wounded in the antiterrorist operations on the Northern Caucasus: premedical and initial medical care in the combat zone (Report II)].

The analysis of organization and contents of the first aid, premedical and initial medical care rendered to the wounded in the armed conflicts on the Northern Caucasus (1994-1996, 1999-2002) was conducted. It was established that the first aid was rendered to the most casualties who needed it (65% in the first conflict and 79% in the second conflict). The mean terms of rendering the first aid in the second conflict as compared with the conflict of 1994-1996 were decreased from 29 +/- 2 min to 18 +/- min. The role of premedical care was minimal in both conflicts: it was rendered to 3% casualties only. The premedical care was rendered in those cases when the first aid appeared to be ineffective, had obvious defects or in the delay of further evacuation of the wounded. The initial medical care became the central type or pre-hospital care in the combat zone. It was rendered to 56% casualties in the first conflict and to 59% in the second conflict. The mean terms of initial medical care rendered in the second armed conflict were 1.5 +/- 0.2 h. They have considerably decreased as compare with the first conflict (2.5 +/- 0.4 h). The introduction of the physicians with initial surgery and intensive care training in the staffs of regimental medical companies was resulted in significant improvement of initial medical care quality. It provided the adequate preparedness of the wounded for aeromedical evacuation to multipurpose military hospitals of the first level.