[Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation in severe combined trauma complicated by fat embolism]. / Ékstrakorporal'naia membrannaia oksigenatsiia pri tiazheloi sochetannoi travme, oslozhnennoi zhirovoi émboliei.

It is presented the victim with severe combined injury complicated by fat embolism and acute respiratory failure. Veno-venous extracorporeal membrane oxygenation was successfully used to provide adequate extracorporeal gas exchange in refractory respiratory failure.

[Epidural anesthesia during operations on the heart in patients with obesity].

The paper estimates an anesthetic appliance using an epidural block during cardiac operations in obese patients. It shows the advantage of this type of anesthesia in reducing the dose of used narcotic analgesics, in early activating patients, and decreasing the length of stay in a cardiac intensive care unit.