[Assessment of the danger of bronchological studies under polyclinic conditions]. / K otsenke opasnosti bronkhologicheskikh issledovanii v usloviiakh polikliniki.

In 176 ambulatory patients with cancer and inflammatory diseases of the lung the initial parameters of acid-base balance and blood gases were studied. Metabolic acidosis was found in 29.5%, alkalosis--in 54.5%, the values of acid-base balance and blood gases were normal in 15.9% of patients. The degree of bronchoscopy risk under narcosis in ambulatory patients is directly proportional to the kind, character and intensity of disorders in oxidation-reduction processes. Deep, hardly compensated or decompensated disorders in acid-base balance and gas metabolism in pH values higher than 7.54 and lower the 7.26, BE (buffer base shift)--higher than 4.0 meq/1 and lower than 6.0 meq/l, and pO2 lower than 65 mm Hg are the criteria of high risk of bronchological investigation under anesthesia in ambulatory oncological patients.

[Prognosis of lung cancer mortality in the Moldavian SSR]. / Prognoz zabolevaemosti rakom legkogo v Moldavskoi SSR.

Lung cancer morbidity in MSSR is analysed on the basis of statistical data for 1966-1972. The rate of lung cancer incidence is found to be higher than in cancer of the stomach. As a result of extrapolation of average tendencies in the morbidity and mortality of main cancer localizations, it was found that provided the observed tendencies are remained, lung cancer will occupy the first place in the structure of oncological morbidity (to 1976--1977) and mortality (to 1979--1980).