[Intoxication by alcohol and substitutes: prehospital diagnosis and emergency medical care].

The paper considers the pathogenesis, clinical picture, and diagnosis of acute intoxications with alcohol and substitutes, and its prehospital medical care. It details an emergency team's tactics in patients with the above conditions.

[Combination of prehospital systemic thrombolytic therapy with endovascular procedures in the treatment of patients with acute myocardial infarction].

Since July 2002 we have been conducting a study of efficacy of prehospital thrombolytic therapy combined with subsequent endovascular procedures in the treatment of patients with acute myocardial infarction. Fifty nine patients received prehospital fibrinolysis with tissue-type plasminogen activator (TPA, n=28) or streptokinase (n=31) within 6 hours after onset of symptoms. TPA infusion compared with that of streptokinase was associated with smaller ischemic myocardial damage and lower frequency of side effects (3.