[The use of UV irradiated autoblood for the prevention and treatment of pulmonary complications after operations on organs of the abdominal cavity]. / Primenenie UFO sutokrovi dlia profilaktiki i lecheniia legochnykh oslozhnenii posle operatisii na organakh briushnoi polosti.

The authors have made an analysis of incidence of postoperative pneumonias in 285 patients aged from 60 to 83 after operation on the abdominal organs. The use of reinfusion of the UV irradiated blood in the complex of prophylactic measures for prevention of postoperative pneumonias resulted in 2 times less amount of such complications.

[Use of UV autologous blood irradiation for preventing the occurrence of tracheobronchitis during tracheostomy]. / Primenenie UFO autokrovi dlia profilaktiki vozniknoveniia trakheobronkhitov pri trakheostomii.

The authors made an analysis of incidence of tracheobronchitis in patients with tracheostomy. It was established that tracheobronchitis followed 15 of 57 tracheostomies. The use of UV autologous blood irradiation in 17 patients with tracheostomy gave only one case of tracheobronchitis while in 40 operated patients without the procedure there were 14 cases of the complication. Thus, the authors believe that the administration of UV autologous blood irradiation in tracheostomy gives 6 times less incidence of tracheobronchitis in the patients, the method being of value in prevention of the complications.

[Relation between the development of thrombophlebitis of the subclavian vein and the side of catheterization]. / Zavisimost' vozniknoveniia tromboflebita podkliuchichnoi veny ot storony kateterizatsii.

Under study was the development of thrombophlebitis of the subclavian vein after its catheterization in 2435 patients. The complication was shown to appear in 1,5% of all the manipulations. Thrombophlebitis of the right subclavian vein was found to develop four times more often than that of the left one. It is accounted for by differences in the anatomical structure of the right and left subclavian veins.