Vol 336, No 11 (2015)

The authors analysed legal documents and presented data on modern organization of health resort support in the Russian armed forces during peacetime, procedure of referral of military personnel and members of their families and other categories of citizens to health resort treatment and organized recreation. The authors showed the advantages of health resort treatment as a primary stage psychological rehabilitation of servicemen, including «preventive» rehabilitation, as evidenced by positive dynamics of indicators of health, and significant economic effect. Besides the authors determined prospective ways of improving health resort support in the Armed Forces.

The authors give essential characteristics of modern approaches to equipment of medical small and large units and troops. It is shown that for medical evacuation under field conditions it is neccessary to use modern complete-basic equipment that allows effectively providing medical assistance to the wounded and sick, maintaining the established level of readiness of medical troops, unifying norms of medical equipping, operatively deploying organisational stages of medical evacuation, optimizing planning of medical equipment. Medical equipment in peacetime should be carried out on the basis of standards and orders of medical care delivery that ensures harmonization with requirements of public health.

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 18th 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.

Results of the analysis of medical and economic efficiency of sanatorium treatment of the military personnel of Armed Forces of the Russian Federation in the conditions of the military sanatorium organization of the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation are presented.

The aim of the study was to investigate the efficacy of Mardil Zinc® Max in the course of treatment of skin benign disease. Under supervision there were 100 patients, including 46 patients with cutaneous horn, 14 patients with seborrheic keratosis, and 40 patients with HPV skin disorders (vulgar, flat, plantar and anogenital warts). All patients took Mardil Zinc® Max as a topical treatment. When applied to the preparation of skin benign diseases of non-viral origin recovery was observed in 100% of cases. In the treatment of patients with viral skin disorders full recovery was noted in 90% of cases.

The results of the use of low-frequency pulsed electron-electromagnetic field generated by the device «Infita» in the complex health resort treatment of patients with essential hypertension are presented. Decrease of hypertension of brachiocephalic vessels, improvement of venous drainage, decrease and stabilization of arterial blood pressure, relief of cerebralgia, decrease of emotional liability and tiredness. Positive dynamics is determined by the study of fundus, rheoencephalography and ultrasonic Doppler sonography of cerebral vessels.

The article deals with social and political views of the prominent pharmacologist Nikolai Kravkov, expressed in his previously unknown letters to his brother Vasily, written during the Russo-Japanese War and the First World War. The letter’s texts are published for the first time.

(Интервью с первым заместителем начальника Главного военно-медицинского управления МО РФ (1993-1999) генерал-лейтенантом медицинской службы запаса Ю.И.Погодиным)