title: [Anesthesia and intensive therapy in the hospitals of borderline regions during local military actions].
abstract: The experience of surgical, anesthesiological and resuscitation service rearrangement in the border hospitals in the conditions of local military conflicts, when twenty-four-hour service for hospitalization of a great amount of sufferers is possible, is presented in this article. The organized brigade system, which includes necessary specialists, made it possible to provide twenty-four-hour aid to the sufferers from fire-arms, who have injuries accompanied with shocks plentiful hemorrhage which require immediate measures. Antishock measures, having started in the battle field are carried out in the hospital then (necessary anesthesia, arrest of bleeding and blood replacement) that made it possible to carry on adequate surgical intervention in parallel. The positive results of treatment were conditioned by all these. Thus, the brigade system of work of surgeons, anesthesiologists and doctors of other specialties, created by us during the local military actions in the border region permit to provide twenty-four-hour effective aid to all the sufferers.
authors.forename: Z A
authors.initials: ZA
authors.lastname: Ter Avetikian
authors.forename: N V
authors.initials: NV
authors.lastname: Agakhanian
authors.forename: M E
authors.initials: ME
authors.lastname: Mkrtchian
mesh_terms: D000758:Anesthesia / Q000592:standards* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D001136:Armenia / Q000453:epidemiology; D003422:Critical Care / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006767:Hospitals, District / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006801:Humans; D014857:Warfare