[THE DETERMINATION OF EFFECTIVE EQUIVALENT DOSES DURING CHEST RADIOLOGY IN PATIENTS].

As is known, medical radiation has a big impact on the increase of population doses, which determines the risk of increasing population's radiation. Thus, it is relevant the determination of the radiation doses in patients during X-ray diagnostic procedures up to now. The aim of our research is the examination of the effective equivalent doses and their determination during X-ray. Due to the experimental modeling method by using phantom and TLD it has been determined average absorbed doses in separate organs of patients, also the effective equivalent dose during chest organs radiology, which is 122 mrem. It has been relieved that numerical index of the effective equivalent dose was significantly different from consistent inputted exposure and superficial dose indexes, that where often used for the assessment of radiation risk in patients, HE is eight times different from the corresponding value of EED, which amounted to about 1400mR per 1000 mR of EED. It has been established that on "other" organs (on the liver and gastrointestinal tract) the radiation has a big importance for the whole organism radiation exposure in the total effect. The protection of these organs is advisable in every cases, if they are the research object of X-ray or not. Additionally, the contribution of "other" organs is not less than lung lobes, which do not present the research object of X-ray. It has been established the prospects of computing methods due to conducted studies for the determination of the effective equivalent dose in patients for the assessment of X-ray radiation risk.

[COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF ANTIBACTERIAL EFFECT OF PHYTOANTIBIOTICS AND ANTIBIOTICS].

The objective of this study was to determine the antibacterial activity of individual medicines and containing sum of the phyto-extracts against the bacteria causing nosocomial infections in compare to antibiotics. In the investigation were involved four strains of gram-negative bacteria Escherichia coli, Klebsiella pneumoniae, Staphylococcus aureus and Acinetobacter spp. Each object was investigated on antibiotic resistance using Kirby-Bauer diffusion method on 22 types of antibiotics. The objects of the study were: Sanguinarine, Chelerythrine and Berberine hydrochloride (of lab quality); essential oils and aromatic waters of Eucalyptus, Salvia and Lavanda. For determination their antibacterial activity was used Raits serological dilution method with adaptation. The results show that the antibiotic resistant bacteria did not rise in non-diluted and 1:1 diluted test-tubes. In 1:5 diluted test-tubes was observed a little turbidity and growth, as for in other test-tubes - intensive growth. The investigated phyto-medicines show the higher antibacterial activity than the antibiotics.

[Development of medical tourism in Georgia. Problems and prospectiv (review)].

Medical tourism is the movement of patients through a global network of health services. Medical tourists seek affordable healthcare on a timely basis in a variety of destination nations. The expansion of global medical services has sparked immense economic growth in developing nations and has created a new market for advertising access to care. Beyond offering a unique untapped market of services, medical tourism has invited a host of liability, malpractice and ethical concerns. The explosion of off-shore "mini-surgical" vacations will surely incite global unification and increased access, quality and affordability of care. Medical tourism is a dynamic subset of global health care that incorporates a variety of services, procedures and venues of care. Health insurance coverage, the impact on domestic and global markets, and the use of international standards of care will be examined in combination with quality, access and cost parameters. The global nature of medical tourism invites a variety of legal and ethical issues and calls for an organizational body to monitor this new phenomenon. Finally, the future implications of the globalization of health services and systems will be discussed.