State and prospects of the development of diving medicine and pneumatotherapy

On May 17-18, 2018, the X all-army scientific and practical conference «Pneumatotherapy in the complex treatment and rehabilitation of the wounded, sick and affected» was held at the S.M.Kirov Military Medical Academy. It was dedicated to the memory of Professor Viktor Ivanovich Kuleshov, the head of the Department of Physiology of Scuba Diving (1945-2015). The conference was held under the auspices of the Main Military Medical Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, the Military Medical Academy, the inter-regional public organization «Scientific and Practical Society of Barotherapists of St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region». The conference was attended by doctors of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, Rosgvardia, other power structures of the Russian Federation, as well as medical personnel of city, district, regional hospitals of the Ministry of Health, faculty members of the Academy and medical universities of Russia. During the conference more than 20 reports on various issues of diving medicine and pneumatotherapy were heard.

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