[Experience in organizing surgical care during the combat operations in the Chechen Republic].
In the article the final analysis of organization of surgical care during the local military conflict in northern Caucasus was presented. The real possibilities of different medical units such as single medical company and medical squadron of special assignment was described. Also concrete contents of emergency specialized surgical care and its role in improvement of outcomes in patients with combined combat injuries was reflected. Mortality in this patients was decreased from 25.2 to 12.8%. The defects of surgical care were analyzed and the main ways of improvement of surgical care in local military conflict were presented. In the result of using the principle of moving the medical care closer to the wounded in the whole system of consecutive care the mortality was decreased up to 1.3%.
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D013502:General Surgery / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D008887:Military Medicine / Q000458:organization & administration*; D008889:Military Personnel; D009104:Multiple Trauma / Q000601:surgery; D012426:Russia; D014187:Transportation of Patients / Q000458:organization & administration; D014218:Triage / Q000458:organization & administration; D014857:Warfare; D014948:Wounds, Gunshot / Q000601:surgery