Vol 336, No 10 (2015)

Analysis of the state of nutritional support in military medical institutions of the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation. In order to study the state of nutritional support chiefs (heads) of anaesthesiology and resuscitation military medical organizations of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation on the practice of Clinical Nutrition were interviewed. These amounts reflect the organization, strategy, equipment and the need for means and methods of nutritional support, depending on the level of the organization, as well as provide a basis for improving the practice of nutritionally metabolic support in critically ill patients.

The authors analysed clinical, radiological and laboratory aspects of respiratory tract sarcoidosis in servicemen, analysed the quality of life, correlation analysis to determine the risk factors for relapse of the disease. It was found that respiratory tract sarcoidosis of I and II stage was diagnosed in 85.5% of servicemen; in 72% of servicemen prevails asymptomatic course of a disease. Despite the prevalence of asymptomatic forms of the disease, the quality of life of servicemen with sarcoidosis has reduced. The factors associated with recurrent disease: age >35 years; the presence of clinical manifestations; forced vital capacity <85% of predicted values; systemic glucocorticoid therapy in history. Designed range forecast recurrent course of sarcoidosis in young patients having a high predictive value.

The authors provided results of the study on approaches to the classification of medical equipment sets for the medical service of the Armed Forces. A retrospective analysis of the formation and development of classifications of first aid kits, medical bags, sets of medical equipment, medical kits and kits is performed. Basic factors influencing the structure and principles of classification sets of medical equipment are detected. The authors present modern classification of sets of medical equipment and the ways of its improvement.

The publication shows that the use of Saki thermal mineral water in combination with the integrated use of natural and preformed modern medical factors is a highly effective method of rehabilitation treatment of diseases of the gastrointestinal tract.

The authors present the history of the branch N 6 of the Federal State Organization «the Vishnevsky Central Military Clinical Hospital N 3» of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, which dates back to November 1, 1974. Over the past years, organizational and staff structure, and the name of the clinic (45th central polyclinic, 45th central consultative-diagnostic polyclinic, 52nd Advisory Diagnostic Center of Defense) has repeatedly changed, but the core the work stays unchangeable - to continually improve patient care technology, to be the leader in the out-patient care for soldiers, reserve officers (retired), members of their families. The branch consists of 58 medical and 19 specialized diagnostic departments, including 4 hospital departments, 1845 employee work at the branch. Among them 4 doctors of medical science and 43 candidates of medical sciences, 20 honoured physicians and 10 honoured health workers of republic. 70% of doctors and 93% of nurses have the highest qualification category. To health care in the Branch are more than 110 thousand people.

Biochemist Fedor Aronovich Levin (1869-1940) graduated with honours from the S.M.Kirov Military Medical Academy in St. Petersburg in 1891 where he had received a fundamental knowledge from A.P.Dianin and I.P.Pavlov, and then he immigrated to the US. More than three and a half decades of his successful research at the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research contributed to the foundation of the doctrine of nucleic acids. Scientists, who continued to research nucleic acids, were awarded the Nobel Prize, but Levin and his contribution were forgotten. The authors of the given article didn’t found any source in Russian about this prominent biochemist of the 20th century and member of the Russian scientific school. The purpose of the article is to acquaint the reader with a scientific biography of the scientist, who became, without exaggeration, one of the founders of modern genetics.