title: [Aviation support of measures for rendering medical care to the victims of natural disasters, accidents and catastrophes].
abstract: The unpredictable character of natural calamities and technological accidents makes some specific demands on the organization and planning of the wide range complex of social measures to abolish their awful and tragic consequences. Analysing and summarizing the reviews and reports of international congresses on the emergency and catastrophic medicine and their own experience, the authors accentuate attention on the advantages and capabilities of aerial transport in delivering of medical personnel, all necessary equipment to the zones of mass sanitary losses and its really essential role in rapid aeromedical evacuation of injured. The authors scrutinize in details the structural scheme of organization of patient's search-and-rescue work and suggest, that main principles of planning and management of search-and-rescue operations in aviation could be applied in a decision of problems, which arise in medical assistance to the victims of the natural disasters and accidents.
authors.forename: S A
authors.initials: SA
authors.lastname: Bugrov
authors.forename: V V
authors.initials: VV
authors.lastname: Litovchenko
mesh_terms: D000059:Accidents; D000401:Aircraft; D004190:Disasters; D004632:Emergency Medical Services / Q000458:organization & administration*; D005392:First Aid; D006801:Humans; D008952:Mobile Health Units; D014187:Transportation of Patients / Q000458:organization & administration*; D014193:Trauma Centers
vernacular_title: Aviatsionnoe obespechenie meropriiatiĭ po okazaniiu meditsinskoĭ pomoshchi postradavshim pri stikhiĭnykh bedstviiakh, avariiakh i katastrofakh.