[Intraventricular brain pressure in newborn infants with asphyxia and the means for its correction]. / Vnutrizheludochhkovoe davlenie mozga u novorozhdennykh s asfiksiei i sposoby ego korrektsii.

The paper deals with the information noninvasive tool of echoencephalographic determination of cerebral intraventricular pressure in the newborns. With this mode, spinal fluid pressures were measured in 80 patients with prior degrees II and III asphyxia and in 25 healthy children in the early neonatal period. To enhance the efficiency of treating the fluid-hypertensive syndrome in the newborns with hypoxically afflicted central nervous system, an atraumatic method of reflex therapy, including superficial acupuncture, metallic plate acupuncture and application has been developed and proposed if chemotherapeutical loads are restricted. Recommendations to choose acupuncture points are given and the advantages of the method are analyzed.

[Mass screening and prognosis of sequelae of closed cranio-cerebral trauma in children]. / Dispanserizatsiia i prognozirovanie posledstvii zakrytoi cherepno-mozgovoi travmy u detei.

A prognostic method is offered in order to improve the dispensary supervision system for children after closed head trauma. For this purpose, a program of mass screening was specially designed and applied for long-term follow-up in child population in the framework of yearly medical checkups. This provided the information on 210 patients' pretrauma state. The patients were divided into groups according to severity of the posttrauma disorders of the following 2 years that allowed regarding any index in relation to its prognostic value. Computer data processing yielded prognostic criteria for the course of sequelae of the closed head injury.