[The organization of medical care for those with mild illness and infectious pathology in aviation commands in wartime]. / K voprosu organizatsii meditsinskoi pomoshchi legkobol'nym s infektsionnoi patologiei v aviatsionnykh ob''edineniiakh v voennoe vremia.

Infectious diseases are the major cause of casualties in aviation in war time. The present system of casualty staging for infectious patients in an air force doesn't give the possibility for the AF Command and its medical service to execute stable control over minimally sick pilots and aviation technicians with infectious pathology who abandon the air force tactical zone. This fact delays their return to duty. The authors propose to alter the system of casualty staging for these patients by providing medical care right during the stages of medical evacuation.

[The principles of organizing medical care for the minor casualties of Air Force units under battle conditions]. / Printsipy organizatsii meditsinskoi pomoshchi legkoporazhennym iz chastei VVS v boevykh usloviiakh.

The article describes methodological aspects of medical care to minor wounded of the Air Force servicemen in the conditions of modern war. There are data concerning the scale and structure of sanitary losses among the minimally wounded of an Air Army, as well as proposals concerning the optimal utilization of the military field air force hospitals in the conditions of the modern war front defence operation.

Psychophysiological aspects of increasing resistance to space motion sickness.

One of the actual and difficulty solved problems of the adaptation period to microgravitation is space motion sickness (MS) that has the negative influence on well-being and performance of crewmembers in the initial and highly crucial phase of the orbital flight. Among the prophylactic measures for decrease of the unfavourable influence of space MS the preflight training is of great importance, and its role in perspective undoubtedly will grow in connection with increase of the number of crewmembers. During the last years several authors received experimental materials evidenced that as a base of more effective increase of resistance to space MS there may be used adequate modelling of the main physiological effects of the adaptation period to microgravitation. In the most investigations the main attention is paid to modelling of "conflicting" vestibular-visual (VV) impacts. In other hand, in connection with the contradictory materials about the role of hemodynamic component in the development of space MS this effect of microgravitation conditions, as a rule, is not modelled in the methods of resistance enhancement to space MS. Hence in this work there was put a task to investigate the efficiency of application of different combination of VV-impacts and creation of redistribution of liquid medium of an organism in the cranial direction for increase of man resistance to space MS. For resolving this task there was used the specially developed stand, made in two modifications. This stand provided redistribution of liquid medium of an organism in the cranial direction by putting the investigated individual into the antiorthostatic position (AOP). During the rotation around the vertical axis individual was placed in such supine position on the turn table that labyrinth of the inner ear should be displaced by 8-10 centimeters from the axis of rotation to the head edge of the turn table. This increased the adequacy of vestibular apparatus irritation by gravitation and inertia forces with regard to microgravitation conditions.

[The principles of aviation support for rescue-evacuation operations in eliminating the consequences of disasters]. / Printsipy aviatsionnogo obespecheniia spasatel'no-évakuatsionnykh rabot pri likvidatsii posledstvii katastrof.

Analysing practical results of an Air Force participation in liquidation of the earthquake consequences in Armenia, 1988, and after technological catastrophe in Bashkiria, 1989, the authors substantiate the role and significance of air transportation in the system of rescue and evacuation measures, define main tasks for aviation, propose methods for calculation of required number of aircraft and its types. The data cited in this article have formed a basis for the principles of air support during rescue and evacuation procedures.