THE ROLE OF THE N.V. SKLIFOSOVSKY RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR EMERGENCY MEDICINE IN THE CREATION OF DISASTER MEDICINE IN THE COUNTRY
The occurrence of large-scale emergencies with great human losses and the absence of a unified authority of the country health system which would manage its medical and sanitary consequences required the creation of special units to provide emergency health services (EHS) in mass injur...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | Russian |
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Sklifosovsky Research Institute for Emergency Medicine, Public Healthcare Institution of Moscow Healthcare Department
2016-09-01
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| Series: | Неотложная медицинская помощь |
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| Online Access: | https://www.jnmp.ru/jour/article/view/290 |
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| Summary: | The occurrence of large-scale emergencies with great human losses and the absence of a unified authority of the country health system which would manage its medical and sanitary consequences required the creation of special units to provide emergency health services (EHS) in mass injuries. The disaster medicine became attractive for the N.V. Sklifosovsky Research Institute for Emergency Medicine in the 70s of the last century. Originally, the Department for Disaster Medicine was established at the Institute in 1987. At the Department, the extensive work was performed to shorten a time gap between the delivery of medical care and the beginning of a disaster as much as possible. It was based on a created concept for organization of medical assistance and evacuation, methods of its expertise and the development of technical means for phased medical and evacuatiol support of victims. The organizational and medical-diagnostic specificity of EHS in emergencies and its delivery were analyzed in order to reduce the severity of consequences. The health care experience in emergencies has been enriched by the staff of the Institute (who were not employees of the Department) actively involved in the management of mass injuries and poisonings via air ambulance at the accident site and in the treatment of victims admitted to the Institute from sites of emergencies. Consequently, the N.V. Sklifosovsky Research Institute for Emergency Medicine developed and offered the scientific and organizational basis for EHS in emergencies which made a significant practical contribution to the creation of public services for disaster medicine in the country. |
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| ISSN: | 2223-9022 2541-8017 |