[Elastic materials in surgery for inflammatory diseases of the vertebral column].

When 17 patients were surgically treated for spinal tuberculosis and osteomyelitis, anterior spine fusion was performed by A. Ye. Garbuz's procedure that was based on the replacement of a spinal defect by a carbon-carbonic implant that had rifampicin containers in the frontal sections, as well as by autologous bone grafts.

[Use of carbon-carbonic implants in surgery of tuberculous spondylitis].

For surgical treatment of spinal tuberculosis, carbon-carbonic implants were used for anterior spondylosis in 29 patients; in 14 of them bone autografts were additionally applied. Carbon-carbonic implants reliably fixed the operated part of the vertebral column, prevented an increase in kyphotic deformity, and, in combined plastic repair, created favorable conditions for consolidation of bone autografts. A bone-carbon block formed in the late postoperative period.

[Tactical aspects of the use of conduction anesthesia in anesthesiology].

Based on the experience gained in surgery for varicose veins of the lower limbs, the authors discuss the strategy of conduction anesthesia and the necessity of replacing it with the alternative analgetic methods. Conduction anesthesia implies that variants of anesthesiologic provision are specified, based on the results of conduction anesthesia and the patient's status; if a physician doubts whether the nerve block or patient's behavior controllability are full-value, he should resort to combined anesthesia; the surgeon's manipulations in nerve blocking should not increase the risk or limit the use of alternative methods of analgesia.