[Multiple relaparotomies].

Under analysis was the material of the department of urgent and consultation medical aid (sanitary aviation) for the last 20 years. It was found that under conditions of surgical departments of central regional hospitals multiple relaparotomies made up 12.5% of all reoperations.

[Emergency heart surgery in the practice of the flight surgeon].

The authors analyze the materials from departments of emergency and advisory aid (sanitary aviation) over the past 20 years. Emergency care was rendered to cardiosurgical patients with cardiac and pericardial traumatic injuries in the surgical department of central district hospitals. They consider the reasons for a consultant's call, diagnostic aspects and board surgeon's organizational policy.

[Results of gastrectomy with termino-lateral transverse gastroenteroanastomosis in peptic ulcer in patients over 60 years of age].

The authors analyse the material of a specialized gastroenterologic department of a regional clinical hospital and a department of sanitary aviation on rendering emergency and planned surgical aid to elderly and senile patients with gastric and duodenal ulcer. The immediate and late-term results of surgery were much better in resection of the stomach after Eck-Billroth-II with terminolateral transverse anastomosis in K.G.

[Surgical tactics in ulcer-related gastroduodenal hemorrhage in middle-aged and elderly patients].

Under analysis were immediate results of surgical treatment of ulcer disease of the stomach and duodenum complicated by profuse hemorrhage in 229 patients aged from 60 to 79 who were treated in a specialized gastroenterological department of a regional hospital and district hospital. It has been proved that better results of the surgical treatment of gastroduodenal hemorrhages of ulcerous etiology in elderly and senile patients are dependent on more active and earlier performing operative interventions.

[Organizational experience with polyclinic service for cancer patients].

The three organizational patterns of cancer patients' follow-up available within the framework of the Oncological Dispensary of the Ivanovo Region--the polyclinic of the Dispensary, the amalgamated oncological polyclinic and the "specialized" oncological polyclinic--are discussed. The rationale for maintaining a "specialized" oncological polyclinical service is presented.