[Changes in the concentration of beta-endorphin in the cerebrospinal fluid due to morphine analgesia in incurable oncologic patients]. / Izmeneniia kontsentratsii beta-éndorfina v likvore pod vliianiem spinal'noi analgezii morfinom u inkurabel'nykh onkologicheskikh bol'nykh.

Thirty cancer patients, clinical group IV, have been examined. It has been established that a persistent pain syndrome leads to lowering in beta-endorphin liquor level. Morphine analgesia is followed by beta-endorphin level elevation which directly depends on pain intensity and analgesia efficacy. Determination of changes in beta-endorphin liquor level may serve as a criterion of analgesia efficacy.

[Equipment improvements for inhalatory methods of treatment]. / Nekotorye usovershenstvovaniia oborudovaniia dlia ingaliatsionnykh metodov lecheniia.

To cut down unjustifiable consumption of compressed air and electric power in inhalation therapy rooms and to improve the response of patients to curative procedures simple and inexpensive improvements in the inhalation equipment of obsolete models, raising their functional characteristics are proposed.