[Organization of medical support U.S. Armed Forces].

The article describes the structure of the medical service of the U.S. Army, presented by seven corps,principles of planning of capabilities of medical services and their management, personnel policy of the Medical Service, that focuses on the staffing of the medical service of the officers of the possibilities. Organization of medical care during the combat theater provided by 4 echelons is represented. The first echelon "battlefield-Battalion", the second--"brigade combat team", the third is the rear of the theater of operations, the fourth--stationary hospitals outside the theater of operations. The basic direction of reducing the medical costs of all the troops: military personnel, their families, civilian employees of the Ministry of Defence, members of their families, veterans of military service and their families.

[The experience of 183 medical special forces of the Volga-Urals Military District in the elimination of the health effects of the emergency in the Republic of Indonesia].

The article is based on personal experience of the authors with assistance in the aftermath of the tsunami in the Republic of Indonesia, which killed about 120 thousand (December 26, 2004 at 255 km to the west coast of Sumatra). In the disaster area were sent to 183 medical detachments for special purposes of the Volga-Urals Military District, reinforced brigade of specialized medical care of military medical institutions under the central government and the Moscow Military District. As the authors noted, in the aftermath of a disaster like the tsunami, at first put forward preventive measures among displaced persons. The experience gained by the Medical Service of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation in the aftermath of natural disaster in the Republic of Indonesia, is used to plan future humanitarian operations abroad with the assistance of military medical specialists from Russia.

[Experience with mobile units of Disaster Medicine Service of the Russian Defense Ministry in local wars and armed conflicts].

The article describes the experience of using of mobile medical units for medical support of combat operations in the armed conflicts in the North Caucasus. The factors affecting the operation of medical services in local wars and armed conflicts are analyzed. Suggestions for the optimization of organizational structure and principles of the use of mobile units service Emergency Medicine are formulated.

[Status and directions of improving of surveillance subsystem of sanitary-epidemiological situation in the service of emergency medicine of the Ministry of Defense].

The article provides a description of the composition and tasks of government, forces and means of preventive direction of Disaster Medicine Service in countering the biological threats. The subsystem of supervision of sanitary-epidemiological situation, functioning at the central, regional and territorial levels is entrusted with the organization and conduct of monitoring activities, monitoring, assessment, prediction, prevention and elimination of the adverse health and sanitary emergencies. The author suggests the promising areas of optimization of the subsystem of supervision of sanitary-epidemiological situation.

[Service for Disaster Medicine of the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation at the present stage].

The basic documents of the history of service Disaster Medicine in the USSR and the Armed Forces of the country, employed in this branch of medical terminology, classification of emergency situations are presented. The problem of Disaster Medicine Service of the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation at the present stage, the levels of its operations and readiness, as well as the structure and objectives of the medical detachment for special purposes are considered. The involvement of service in peacekeeping operations and medical support of local armed conflicts are assessed.

[Historical aspects of formation of Disaster Medicine Service of the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation].

International and domestic experience of recent years is convincing evidence that military medical staff can and should be an important part of the national system of emergency medical assistance in emergency situations. The article is concerned with the participation of military medical personnel in Russia and the USSR in the aftermath of natural and technological disasters in the twentieth and twenty-first century. Historical background and 20 years of experience in the formation of Disaster Medicine Service of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.

[Analysis of the use of field medical units in the armies of NATO and Russian Armed Forces].

An analysis of medical services of NATO and the Medical Service of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation of modern technology deployment stages of medical evacuation (tents, inflatable structures, shelters, containers, medical armored vehicles, cars, etc.) is presented. Examples of their usage in isolated employment, usage in the group as a mobile medical stations and field hospitals in various conditions, the prospects and directions of development of technical means deployment of medical service are given.

[Application of new technologies in the design, manufacture and use of technology deployment of field medical units and establishments].

Presented data is about attendance means of deployment of field medical units and pieces of army-level medical services and disaster medicine Defense Ministry did not ensure compliance with requirements to create optimal conditions for highly effective work of the medical staff, placing the wounded, the use of modern aids and appliances. The prospects of creation of mobile unit for high-availability modular pre-fabricated on the basis of tent structures, pneumoconstructions and removable habitable bodies, containers, tents, pneumocovers till 2020 are analyzed. Livelihood systems provide armor protection against fragments, bullets, flames, damaging factors of chemical and biological weapons.

[Experience in development of deployment tools of medical evacuation stages].

Paper is devoted to the history of creation of various types of field installations of the tent, mobile medical units and facilities, the experience of their usage in combat. An analysis of approaches to medical support of troops and equipment of the medical service in accordance with the changing nature of military operations in the XX-XI centuries is performed. Description of several generations of means taken to supply is given.

[Organization of medical equipment and stock supply of military medical facilities and groups of Disaster Medicine Service of the Russian Defense Ministry in emergency situations].

The article outlined the modern concept of medical equipment and stock supply of medical facilities and groups of Disaster Medicine Service of the Russian Defense Ministry involved into the remedial of the medical actions of emergency situations. The structure of the units of medical supplies in these conditions is presented.

[Medical service of Russian Army in the First World War 1914-1918 (to the 95th anniversary of the beginning of war)].

During the First World War 1914-1918 Russian Army hadn't a united medical service, military-medical affair was diluted in multiple governances. Evacuation of wounded and ill persons was an affair of Evacuation Governance of Main Governance the General Staff. Process of treatment in field and stationary medical formations was administered by sanitarium chiefs of armies and theaters of operation, bureaucrats of Russian Red Cross Society, Russian Union of Cities and Territorial Union. Supply by medical property, accounting and arrangement of medical staff was administered by Main Military-Sanitarium Governance, supply by sanitarium-household property--by Main Indent Governance, health resort affair--by Governance of Supreme chief of sanitarium and evacuation part in Empire of prince Ol'denburgskiy P.A. On the base of different sources were characterized casualty of Russian Army during the war.

[Organization of medical support of troops in the course of Georgia peace enforcement operation].

In the course of operation the medical armed units and institutes of permanent readiness realized the buildup of forces and measures of the medical service. Supplementary were provided: to enforce the 236th military hospital (Vladikavkaz)--group of medical enforcement from Main and central military hospitals; to enforce the 1602nd regional hospital (Rostov-on-Don)--brigade of specialized medical aid of MMA of Kirov S.M.; the 183rd separated medical group of special purpose (semegosp SP) (PUMR). From 14 to 28 of August 2008 the 529 semegosp SP provided the medical aid to 456 patients (350 persons of them were servicemen), 221 persons were hospitalized, 136 persons were evacuated. Additionally an autobandaging room was established in the structure of surgical group. From 14 to 28 of August 2008 the 183 MU SP provided the medical aid to 115 patients (104 persons of them were servicemen), 32 persons get a stationary treatment, 21 persons were hospitalized, 25 persons were evacuated, 8 persons were discharged. Generally, medical service, which took party in operation of Georgia peace enforcement, realized all missions.

[Military sanatorium and resorts as a base for formation of the centers of medical rehabilitation during the armed conflicts].

The present medical-diagnostic and logistics systems of military sanatoria (MS) and military rest homes (MRH) allow creating on their basis the centers for medical rehabilitation (CMR). The CMR organization structure should include unfoldement of the following basic functional subunits and rooms: department of recovering treatment for patients of neurosurgery profile, department of recovering treatment for patients of thorasicoabdominal profile, department of recovering treatment for patients of traumatologic profile, department of recovering treatment for patients of general surgeon profile, department of recovering treatment for burnt patients, department of recovering treatment for patients of general somatic profile, department of recovering treatment for patients of psychoneurological profile.

[The ways of improvement of the Armed Forces medical service organizational structure according to the character of modern military conflicts].

During the period of reformation and decrease in the number of Russian Federation Armed Forces as well as the medical service the use of existing infrastructure of military district medical service and formation of Stationery Hospital Base (SHB) is an alternative to organization of treatment-and-evacuation measures in the armed conflicts and local wars. Taking into account the peculiarities and schemes of organization of treatment-and-evacuation measures in military conflicts and according to the calculated needs for medical service forces and means necessary for forces group medical support the SHB organizational structure can be consisted of three main modules. 1. The Headquarters Module is an operative group of medical service of military district rear headquarters. 2. The Stationery Module consists a number of medical institutions of military district medical service. 3. The Mobile Module consists a number of medical units and institutions of military district medical service that are capable to dislocate and perform the special tasks when and where it is necessary.