title: [Experience in rendering medical care to infectious patients in Afghanistan].
abstract: For the first time it was Afghanistan where the 40th Army had faced with mass polyinfection morbidity which had a severe course and unfavourable outcome. In these conditions a new effective system of medical care to infectious patients was elaborated and applied. This system comprised a four-staged complex of medical and diagnostical measures. That made it possible to reduce the number of fatal cases by 16 times (from 0.49 to 0.03%) in 1983-1989. The total number of servicemen returned to active duty was brought up to 99.6%. The most important factors in this new system were the following: at prehospital stage--new methods in early definition of infectious patients, opportune diagnosis and emergency care; at hospital phase--new methods of triage, schemes of complex treatment for various nosological forms working principles of intensive therapy.
authors.forename: I S
authors.initials: IS
authors.lastname: Ivanov
mesh_terms: D000346:Afghanistan; D003131:Combined Modality Therapy; D003141:Communicable Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000628:therapy*; D003695:Delivery of Health Care; D004630:Emergencies; D006801:Humans; D008889:Military Personnel; D014218:Triage; D014586:USSR; D014857:Warfare
vernacular_title: Opyt okazaniia meditsinskoĭ pomoshchi infektsionnym bol'nym v Afganistane.