[Surgical care for the wounded in an armed conflict: the organization and support of first aid, prehospital and initial medical care (1)].
The article is devoted to surgical care organization to the battle casualties in Northern Caucasus, analysis of size and structure of "sanitary losses" (wounded in actions), questions of rendering first aid, battalion medical specialist aid and initial physician care. Gunshot wounds prevailed (64.1%) in the structure of battle surgical casualties. The blunt traumas and non-gunshot injuries have made of 33.2%, burns--4.1%, frost-bites--1.3%. The efficiency of medical care in this armed conflict is investigated on the own experience and retrospective analysis of graduated care to the 1030 casualties. Significance of duly rendering of the first aid to battle casualties is shown: the morality in this group had made 1.3%. Among wounded, which the first aid did not appear, the morality was of 7.0%.
Efimenko
N A
NA
Gumanenko
E K
EK
Samokhvalov
I M
IM
Trusov
A A
AA
D005392:First Aid / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D013502:General Surgery / Q000458:organization & administration* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006801:Humans; D008887:Military Medicine / Q000458:organization & administration* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D008889:Military Personnel / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D009104:Multiple Trauma / Q000401:mortality / Q000601:surgery; D012426:Russia / Q000453:epidemiology; D014218:Triage / Q000458:organization & administration* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D014947:Wounds and Injuries / Q000401:mortality / Q000601:surgery*
Khirurgicheskaia pomoshch' ranenym v vooruzhennom konflikte: organizatsiia i soderzhanie pervoĭ, dovrachebnoĭ i pervoĭ vrachebnoĭ pomoshchi (soobshchenie pervoe).