[Homeostasis changes during rehabilitation period after acute chemical poisoning].

The article deals with review of 78 patients of rehabilitation toxicological unit. The patients received resuscitation and detoxification. All patients were divided into three groups; 1st group--patients after poisoning with psychopharmaceuticals, 2nd group--patients after poisoning with cauterizing liquids and 3rd group--patients with encephalopathy after poisoning with neurotoxin (psychopharmaceuticals, narcotics and ethanol).

[Endoscopic treatment of chemical burns to the stomach with mucosa ulceration and necrosis].

The prevalence of acute poisoning with caustic substances in Russia is higher than in other countries and is reported by different authors as accounting for 10-32% cases among the patients admitted to acute poisoning treatment centres. Especially unfavorable prognosis is considered for necrotizing burns to the stomach that increase the risk of severe complications leading to disability of patients. The study aimed at improving the treatment of necrotizing chemical burn to the stomach by the infusion of a 5% Mexidole solution into the edges of a burn lesion at different stages of the treatment course.

[Antidote therapy for acute carbon monoxide poisoning].

Aim: To evaluate the antidote properties of acizol in acute carbon monoxide poisoning (ACMP).

Subjects And Methods: The study included 70 patients with ACMP. Of them 35 patients received a package of medical measures, which involved 6% acizol solution injected in a dose of 1 ml on hospital admission and an hour later.

[Geriatric aspects of diagnosis and treatment of psychotropic agent poisonings].

Clinical and laboratory parameters were comparatively assessed in persons from two age groups (15-59 and 60-89 years) on their admission to hospital and in the course of equal treatment. The elderly and senile patients showed a higher incidence of inflammatory complications and death in the toxicogenic and somatogenic phases of acute intoxication with delayed recovery of laboratory parameters.

[Ethyl alcohol-combined and concomitant poisonings by psychotropic agents].

The paper provides the results of examining 474 patients with acute poisonings by psychotropic agents due to their combined use or in combination with ethanol. It shows the frequency of different combinations of psuchotropic drugs and denotes the poorest of them to the outcome of disease. Concomitant poisonings are demonstrated to show a severe course and high death rates whereas poisonings combined with ethanol, if at low blood concentrations, take their better course.