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The article is dedicated to the current state and prospectives of cell engineering in the treatment of diabetes mellitus. The material is based on the analysis of clinical trials in which cell engineering has been applied for the treatment of diabetes mellitus and its complications. It has been shown that despite the decade of intensive research the clinically significant results have not been achieved yet. At the same time the fast growth of the number of publications in the field testified to intensity of basic and applied research and the large quantity of ongoing clinical trials on the topic make it possible to. look at the prospectives of the employment of cell engineering in the treatment of diabetes mellitus with a certain optimism.
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Diabetes Complications/prevention & control , Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1/therapy , Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2/therapy , Mesenchymal Stem Cell Transplantation/methods , Mesenchymal Stem Cell Transplantation/trends , Clinical Trials as Topic , Diabetes Complications/immunology , Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1/immunology , Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2/immunology , Humans , Treatment OutcomeABSTRACT
The article is a brief description of the current state of Lithuanian Armed Forces medical service and is based on the study of the open access foreign sources. At the beginning, the general information about Lithuania, its Armed Forces, and their, medical service is presented. Then the medical service particular features are described, with more detail, namely, the organization of the inpatient and outpatient treatment, medical supply, scientific research, combat medicine, medical staff education and training, medical service personnel income.
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Military Medicine/methods , Military Medicine/standards , Military Personnel , Humans , LithuaniaABSTRACT
The article is a brief description of the current state of Polish Armed Forces medical service and is based on the study of open access foreign sources. At the beginning, general information about Poland, its Aimed Forces, and their medical service is presented. Then the medical service particular features are described with more detail, namely, the organization of the inpatient and outpatient treatment, medical supply, scientific research, combat medicine, medical staff education and training, medical service personnel income.
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Education, Medical , Military Medicine , Ambulatory Care , Military Medicine/education , Military Personnel , PolandABSTRACT
Electronic textbooks and libraries abroad. - The current article presents a brief analysis of the modern state and perspectives of electronic textbooks and libraries abroad. The material is based on the open access foreign internet sources. Using particular examples it has been shown that despite a long history of electronic textbooks and libraries development, the latter remains at the very early stage. The bureaucratic attempts to speed up this process result in costly failures. It is necessary a painstaking and cautious work in the mode of scientific practical experiment to give electronic textbooks and libraries a chance to make worthy contribution into the progress of training, education and culture.
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Electrical Equipment and Supplies , Libraries, Digital , Textbooks as Topic , HumansABSTRACT
The current article is a brief review of the, 2015 foreign scientific publications dedicated to medical provision in the Arctic. The review begins from the problem of water supply. Then the publications from the field offood supply, epidemiology and infectious diseases, suicide, and telemedicine are reviewed in a shorter manner. In conclusion it is pointed out that diversity and uniqueness of the Arctic medicine problems require complex approach for' the problems solution which can be accomplished by establishing a specialized scientific practical center.
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Delivery of Health Care , Infection Control , Infections/epidemiology , Infections/therapy , Arctic Regions , Delivery of Health Care/methods , Delivery of Health Care/organization & administration , Delivery of Health Care/standards , Humans , Infection Control/methods , Infection Control/organization & administration , Infection Control/standards , RussiaABSTRACT
Effectiveness of infrared-terahertz radiation with acupuncture in the initial period of ischemic stroke. This article presents the data of observational retrospective clinical investigation aiming at generalization of the experience of usage of infrared terahertz radiation combined with acupuncture for treatment of the patients in the initial period of ischemic stroke. The experimental group contained 30 patients which had various clinical problems at the initial period of hospitalization. The attempts to dissolve these problems within the acceptable period of time employing domestic and international standard treatment approaches failed. The control group consisted of 31 patients with uncomplicated course of stroke. The patients of the experimental group in addition to the standard treatment received infrared terahertz treatment (device
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Acupuncture Therapy/methods , Brain Ischemia/therapy , Infrared Rays/therapeutic use , Stroke/therapy , Adult , Aged , Aged, 80 and over , Brain Ischemia/pathology , Brain Ischemia/physiopathology , Female , Humans , Male , Middle Aged , Retrospective Studies , Stroke/pathology , Stroke/physiopathologyABSTRACT
The article is a brief description of the current state of the Estonian Defense Forces medical service and is based on the study of the open access foreign sources. At the beginning, the general information about Estonia, its Defense Forces, and their medical service is presented. Then the medical service particular features are described with more detail, namely, the organization of the inpatient and outpatient treatment, medical supply, scientific research, combat medicine, medical staff education and training, medical service personnel income.
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Delivery of Health Care/organization & administration , Health Services/supply & distribution , Military Medicine/organization & administration , Delivery of Health Care/standards , Estonia , Health Services/standards , Hospitals, Military/organization & administration , Hospitals, Military/standards , Military Medicine/education , Military Medicine/standards , Schools, MedicalABSTRACT
Thee article is a brief description of the current state of the Finnish Defence Forces medical service and is based on the study of the open access foreign sources. At the beginning, the general information about Finland, the Finnish Defence Forces, and their medical service is presented. Then some particular features are described with more detail, namely, the organization of the inpatient and outpatient treatment, medical supply, scientific research, combat medicine, medical staff education and training, medical , service personnel income.
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Aerospace Medicine/organization & administration , Military Medicine/organization & administration , Naval Medicine/organization & administration , Aerospace Medicine/education , Aerospace Medicine/methods , Education, Medical/organization & administration , Finland , Humans , Military Medicine/education , Military Medicine/methods , Military Personnel , Naval Medicine/education , Naval Medicine/methodsABSTRACT
The current article positions the combined burn and non-burn injuries in the general array of civilian and combat burns. For that purpose the official state statistics and scientific medical publications, domestic as well as foreign, have been analyzed. It has been shown that in peace time the combined burn/trauma injuries are infrequent. But the same type of injury becomes routine especially among the civilian population in the conditions of the modern so called "hybrid war". And the medical service should be prepared for it.
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Burns/epidemiology , Burns/etiology , Military Medicine , Military Personnel , Multiple Trauma/epidemiology , Multiple Trauma/etiology , Burns/diagnosis , Burns/therapy , Humans , Military Medicine/organization & administration , Military Medicine/trends , Multiple Trauma/diagnosis , Multiple Trauma/therapy , Trauma Severity IndicesABSTRACT
This article is dedicated to the current state and prospectives of cell engineering in nephrology from the point of view of military medicine. The review is based on publications from January 1, 2014, to June 1, 2015, and consists of two parts. In the first part the main directions of the cell engineering development are mentioned. The only two clinical trials existed in the field are discussed in more detail. The second part deals with prospectives of cell engineering in nephrology. It is shown that currently this field is in the stage of preclinical experimentation. Of the two known clinical trials the first has failed to demonstrate any effectiveness of cell engineering, the second--will be completed only at the end of 2016. Also, the review notes an extraordinary cost of cell engineering experiments in nephrology. The analysis of publications allows to come to a conclusion that the future progress in prevention and treatment of acute kidney injury could go not in the direction of cell engineering but rather non-cell technologies. One of. the practical consequence of such a conclusion is a necessity to continue the improvement of already existing methods of machine renal replacement therapy.
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Cell Engineering/methods , Military Medicine/methods , Nephrology/methods , Acute Kidney Injury/therapy , Cell Engineering/trends , Clinical Trials as Topic , Early Termination of Clinical Trials , Humans , Mesenchymal Stem Cell Transplantation/adverse effects , Mesenchymal Stem Cell Transplantation/methods , Military Medicine/trends , Nephrology/trends , Tissue Engineering/methods , Tissue Engineering/trendsABSTRACT
The article is a brief description of the current state of the Latvian National Armed Forces medical service and is based on the study of the open access foreign sources. At the beginning, the general information about Latvia, its Armed Forces, and their medical service is presented. Then the medical service particular features are described with more detail, namely, the organization of inpatient and outpatient treatment, medical supply, scientific research, combat medicine, medical staff education and training, medical service personnel income.
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Delivery of Health Care/organization & administration , Military Medicine/organization & administration , Military Personnel , Education, Medical/organization & administration , Health Services/standards , Humans , Latvia , Military Medicine/educationABSTRACT
The current conceptions of non- pharmacological therapeutic methods capabilities and mechanism of their action. The current article demonstrates the modern capabilities of non-pharmacological therapeutic methods on the example of effective use of infrared-terahertz radiation and acupuncture in cases when the standard treatments failed. The first clinical presentation describes the case of successful intervention in the stroke patient on his 18 day of staying in coma. The second presentation dedicates to rehabilitation of a post-stroke patient with hemiparesis and wheelchair use for five years. Then the modern approaches to understanding the employed methods are proposed. The developing concept is based on the idea that the applied therapeutic modalitiy forms an afferent matrix-challenge in the central nervous system to which the latter elaborates the reciprocal efferent matrix-response. In the process of reaction the central nervous system performs a kind of reboot of its system functional connections thus eliminating stagnant pathological dominants and inhibitions. It is proposed to employ the accumulated experience in the conditions of increasing restriction of drugs and medical devices import.
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Aortic Aneurysm/therapy , Physical Therapy Modalities , Stroke Rehabilitation , Stroke/therapy , Adult , Aged , Aortic Aneurysm/pathology , Aortic Aneurysm/physiopathology , Coma/pathology , Coma/physiopathology , Coma/therapy , Humans , Male , Stroke/pathology , Stroke/physiopathologyABSTRACT
The current article briefly reviews the experience of combat burns care obtained in the course of 2001-2013 military campaign in Afghanistan and Iraq as it has been covered in the foreign scientific medical publications. The following topics are covered: statistics, the prehospital medical care, aeromedical evacuation, the Burn Center of the US Army Institute of Surgical Research. The new method.of the .initial intravenous infusion rate estimation, so called the "Rule of 10 formula, is marked: At the end, the list of freely available publications summarized the modern combat burns care experience is presented.
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Burn Units/organization & administration , Burns/therapy , Hospitals, Military/organization & administration , Military Medicine/organization & administration , Military Personnel , Adult , Afghan Campaign 2001- , Air Ambulances , Burns/diagnosis , Burns/etiology , Burns/mortality , Female , Humans , Iraq War, 2003-2011 , Male , Military Medicine/methods , Trauma Severity Indices , Triage , United States/epidemiologyABSTRACT
The article is a brief description of the current state of the Norwegian Armed Forces medical service and is based on the study of the open access foreign sources. At the beginning, the general information about Norway, the Norwegian Armed Forces, and their medical service is presented: Then some particular features are described with more detail, namely, the organization of the inpatient and outpatient treatment, medical supply, scientific research, combat medicine, medical staff education and training, medical service personnel income.
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Delivery of Health Care/organization & administration , Military Medicine/organization & administration , Delivery of Health Care/standards , Military Medicine/economics , Military Medicine/education , Military Medicine/standards , Norway , Schools, MedicalABSTRACT
The article is dedicated to the current state and prospectives of military endocrinology demonstrated on the examples of the endocrinology services of armed forces of Serbia, Poland, France, and USA. It is shown that this branch of military healthcare receives much attention abroad. The prospectives of military endocrinology are demonstrated in the context of two nosological forms which dominate in this section of military medicine, namely, primary hypothyroidism an diabetes mellitus.
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Endocrinology , Military Medicine , Diabetes Mellitus/diagnosis , Diabetes Mellitus/therapy , Endocrinology/methods , Endocrinology/organization & administration , Endocrinology/trends , Female , Humans , Hypothyroidism/diagnosis , Hypothyroidism/therapy , Male , Military Medicine/methods , Military Medicine/organization & administration , Military Medicine/standardsABSTRACT
This article is dedicated to the current state and prospectives of military nephrology. Using as examples the nephrology services of the armed forces of Serbia, France, Great Britain and USA it is shown that this branch of military healthcare plays an important role abroad. The brief review of military nephrology formation and development history demonstrates the growing significance of military nephrology in the general system of medical care at the battlefield.
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Military Medicine , Nephrology , Humans , Military Medicine/methods , Military Medicine/standards , Military Medicine/trends , Nephrology/methods , Nephrology/standards , Nephrology/trendsABSTRACT
The current article elucidates some novel trends in the field of medical control over the physical training process in the US Armed Forces. The high rate of injuries attributed to physical training calls for scientific medical research intensification of the physical training process. The main innovations are the following: avoidance of overtraining, personalization, gradual increase of loading.
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Military Medicine/methods , Military Medicine/organization & administration , Military Personnel , Physical Fitness , Female , Humans , Male , United StatesABSTRACT
The current article elucidates some novel trends in the field of healthcare-associated infections emerged in the foreign scientific medical publications over the last year and a half (January 2013 - June 2014). The following topics are covered: definition of the term, the body of publications bibliometrics, classification, statistics, patient-to-professional infection transmission, control and prevention, specialized national organizations, new guidelines and a new monograph on the theme. The conducted analysis demonstrates the significance of the topic and the high rate of research in the field.
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Iatrogenic Disease/prevention & control , Infection Control/methods , Infections , Humans , Infections/epidemiology , Infections/etiology , Infections/therapyABSTRACT
The current article is dedicated to the problem of scientific research organization in the field of combat medical robots development in the US Armed Forces. The role of the Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Research Center is singled out. The project A Robotic System for Wounded Patient Extraction and Evacuation from Hostile Environments is described in more detail. It is noted the high cost of such technical systems development and operation.
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Military Medicine , Robotics , Transportation of Patients , Humans , Military Medicine/instrumentation , Military Medicine/methods , Military Medicine/trends , Robotics/instrumentation , Robotics/methods , Robotics/trends , Transportation of Patients/methods , Transportation of Patients/trends , United StatesABSTRACT
The current article is dedicated to the network mode of medical scientific research organization in the US Armed Forces exploring the Armed Forces Institute of Regenerative Medicine as an example. The following features of the institute are examined: the structure, definition of scientific research goals and tasks, financing, management, areas of research, the next generation of the institute. In conclusion some characteristic features of network scientific research establishment and required legal conditions are determined.