[The experience of medical support for local wars and the problems of evacuating the wounded and sick by air].
The authors disclose the constant up-grade in the role of air transportation for medical evacuation. This problem is studied on the basis of the Korean war (1951-1953), and the Afghan war (1979-1988). Thus, the average quota of wounded evacuated by air from combat areas in Afghanistan was 68.8%. In several operations it was up to 90-95%. Air transportation made it possible to shorten the time throughout the chain of evacuation and exclude some intermediate stages of evacuation.
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D000401:Aircraft; D006801:Humans; D008887:Military Medicine / Q000458:organization & administration*; D008889:Military Personnel; D014187:Transportation of Patients / Q000458:organization & administration*; D014586:USSR; D014857:Warfare; D000078329:Workforce
Opyt meditsinskogo obespecheniia lokal'nykh voĭn i problemy évakuatsii ranenykh i bol'nykh po vozdukhu.