[Modern view of people falling syndrome elderly and senial age (literature review).]

The review article analyzes scientific publications devoted to the actual problem of modern society - the syndrome of falls in elderly and senile people. The multifactorial nature of falls is demonstrated, which must be taken into account when carrying out diagnostic and therapeutic measures. The information obtained made it possible to identify the most significant conditions and diseases leading to an increase in the frequency of falls. The paper systematizes information about the causes of falls and the prevention of falls, diagnosis and complex treatment of elderly and senile patients. Attention is drawn to the victims of elderly and senile age with traumatic injuries.

[Improvement of the early diagnostic system and complex treatment elderly aged victims with severe traumatic brain injury of postoperative infectious - inflammatory complications.]

Improve the system of early diagnostic and complex treatment of postoperative infectious - inflammatory complications in victims of elderly ages with severe cranial injury. Medical institutions of Saint-Petersburg provided examination and treatment to 94 victims of elderly ages who were operated due to severe cranial injury. Examinations to identify inflammatory complications were provided from the body temperature rising and included laboratory tests, ultrasonography, X-Rays, Computer Tomography. The complex measures taken allowed to reduce severity and duration of postoperative inflammatory complications, cut the average bed-day hospital treatment from 42±6 days to 33±5 days in victims located in the neurosurgery department. Probability of infectious - inflammatory pulmonary complications development increases regardless of age. At the same time inflammatory urine tract complications most often occur among elderly age men who suffer from prostate hyperplasia and malfunction of the urination process after a long time of using intraurethral catheters. Early complex diagnostic examination allows the timely diagnosis of postoperative complications, and to begin the adequate treatment of victims.

[Neurological complications and consequences of new coronavirus COVID-19 infection in elderly and old patients (literature review).]

Based on the available publications, the article systematizes information about some forms of lesions of the central nervous system (CNS), their pathogenesis, and clinical manifestations in COVID-19. Risk factors, developmental mechanisms, diagnostic approach, age characteristics of patients with neurological complications of COVID-19 are discussed. The specific mechanisms of the neuroinvasiveness and neurovirulence of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, regardless of the age of patients and the presence of risk factors, lead to systemic damage to the endothelium of small-caliber vessels, generalized thrombovasculitis, and an increased risk of ischemic and hemorrhagic strokes. At the same time, the most vulnerable category is elderly and senile patients with cardiovascular and metabolic disorders (arterial hypertension, obesity, diabetes mellitus), which sharply worsen treatment outcomes. The clinical experience accumulated during the COVID-19 pandemic indicates the development of the following most frequent post-covid neurological complications and consequences in mainly elderly and senile patients: cranial mononeuropathies, chemosensory dysfunction, encephalopathy, insomnia, stroke, acute meningoencephalitis, acute disseminated encephalomyelitis syndrome acute polyneuropathy Guillain-Barré, transverse myelitis. The benefits of vaccination against COVID-19 far outweigh the risks of possible post-vaccination neurological complications and consequences, especially in elderly and senile patients.

[Megapolis medical rehabilitation system of elderly patients with severe cranio-cerebral injury.]

The capacities of systemic standard graded medical rehabilitation were assessed in 469 patients carried out surgical intervention for severe craniocerebral injury at Saint-Petersburg hospitals in 2010-2017. As a result of neurorehabilitation system introduction rates of infectious-inflammatory complications associated with physical inactivity were significantly decreased. An average length of stay at hospital was decreased from 34±5 to 23±4 days. At discharge from neurosurgical hospital the Barthel index of activities of daily living was 42±8 points. After inpatient rehabilitation course an average Barthel index was increased to 70±6 points. And after outpatient rehabilitation course an average Barthel index had reached 70±6 points.

URGENT X-RAY DIAGNOSTICS OF INTRACRANIAL PYOINFLAMMATORY OTORHINOSINUSOGENIC COMPLICATIONS.

An analysis of the results of X-ray CT and MR-imaging was made in 46 patients aged from 13 to 78 years old. The patients were admitted to multifield hospitals in Kursk at the period from 2005 to 2015. The research included the nasal cavity, paranasal sinuses, mastoid and pyramid of the temporal bones and the brain. The study could be repeated with bolus contrast medium infusion. The condition of the patients was evaluated in dynamics at intervals of 5-7 days and these data was associated with clinical picture. The authors presents a complex of symptoms and an algorithm of differentiated X-ray diagnostics of diseases of the ENT organs and the main nosological forms of pyoinflammatory diseases of arachnoid membrane and substances of the brain.