[Estimation of the sweat composition of fatty acids].

Changes in the fatty acid composition of sweat lipid were studied in persons whose activity was associated with military service. There were significant changes in essential fatty acids of sweat lipids, which made it possible to use this noninvasive biological object as a criterion for rating dysadaptive processes in armed forces personnel.

[Role and place of military medical service in Ukraine in the state service of medicine of catastrophes].

The authors discusses in the article important questions related to providing medical care during emergency situations. Promising directions on creation of unique state medicine service of catastrophes and generalized plan of interaction of medical components refering to different ministries and institutions of the country were proposed by the authors. The role and place of medical care of military army of ukraine in state service of medicine of catastrophes were shown in the article.

[Preventive rehabilitative measures for preserving the health and occupational safety of flight personnel]. / Preventivnye reabilitatsionnye meropriiatiia po sokhraneniiu zdorov'ia i professional'noi nadezhnosti letnogo sostava.

The existing concept of medical maintenance of flying personnel not takes into account the phase changes of functional condition and professional performance of a pilot. It causes the necessity of additional preventive rehabilitation, directed on restoration and preservation of important professional qualities of the pilots during the training and combat activity. The author offered reasonable system of rehabilitation measures, including indications, means and conditions of correction measures application. Is carried out practical introduction of preventive rehabilitation in system of medical maintenance of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The data about its efficiency are given.

[The characteristics of conducting aviation medical expertise and dynamic medical observation of flight personnel with differing ocular refraction]. / Nekotorye osobennosti provedeniia vrachebno-letnoi ekspertizy i dinamicheskogo vrachebnogo nabliudeniia za litsami letnogo sostava s razlichnoi refraktsiei glaz.

The principal techniques are systematized and implemented in examination of the visual analyser's functions in the professional aircrew. New techniques such as, for instance, visocontranstoperimetry are presented. The need for an investigation to be conducted on frequency-contrast sensitivity of the eyes is emphasized, as is continuity of methods for examination of flying personnel, beginning from troop section and ending with specialized aircraft medical centre. The authors make practical recommendations on activation and rehabilitation of the degraded visual functions in flying personnel (<> of accommodation, optico-distant blurring/obscuring, accomodoconvergentraining, autotraining of external ocular muscles and some other nontraditonal methods, prophylactic treatment with biostimulators and drug preparations aimed at improvement of metabolic processes in the visual analyzer structures, and some others).

[The efficacy of restoring the professional health of flight personnel in a combat unit]. / Effektivnost' vosstanovleniia professional'nogo zdorov'ia letnogo sostava v usloviiakh stroevoi chasti.

It is shown in the paper that sanitary and rehabilitative measures (graded physical exercise, saunas, manual massage with the elements of biodynamic correction of the spinal column, relaxation exercises in the framework of remedial gymnastics, electrotranquilization of the central nervous system, psychosomatic self-regulation, functional music, video programmes, self-massage of biologically active points, specific diet) taken under conditions of drill by command of the flying personnel, tend to lead to lowering of the general morbidity rate (by a factor of 1.7), work losses (by a factor of 1.8), probability of occurring of iatrogenic diseases (by a factor of 1.6), thereby promoting rise in the level of functional efficiency of the pilot and safety of flights.