[Diagnostic value of load tests in the evaluation of nonspecific changes in the electrocardiogram]. / Duagnosticheskoe znachenie nekotorykh nagruzochnykh testov v otsenke nespetsificheskikh izmenenii élektrokardiogramm.

The paper describes the examinations of 353 patients with various cardiovascular pathologies and changes in the end-portion of the ECG ventricular complex. For that purpose potassium chloride, obsidan, orthostatic and hyperventilation tests were used. The examinations demonstrated that the ECG changes were of functional nature in 178 patients, of organic nature in 155 patients and of mixed nature in 20 patients which was important for reliable diagnostic and expertise conclusions.

[Determination and clinical evaluation of the indicators of work capacity in the flight personnel]. / Opredelenie pokazatelei fizicheskoi rabotosposobnosti u lits letnogo sostava i ikh klinicheskaia otsenka.

Using submaximal exercises, work capacity of 375 aircraft crewmembers, aged 20-49, was investigated. It declined slightly with age. The factors most frequently causing its decrease in healthy and diseased people were identified and methods of its measurement were refined. It was shown that the work load, chronotropic reserve index and cardiac index may give indirect evidence of the coronary blood flow rate, and the inotropic reserve index of the cardiac contractile function. Determination of work capacity of the flight personnel makes it possible to improve the medical supervision, detect at an early stage cardiovascular abnormalities and to substantiate expertise conclusions.