[Development of anesthetic and ventilation equipment at the ZAO "VNIIMP-VITA"].

The main stages of development of anesthetic and ventilation equipment at VNIIMP-VITA, Ltd., the leading organization in this area of biomedical engineering in Russia, are discussed. Results of collaboration with physicians, researchers, and manufacturers of anesthetic and ventilation equipment are considered.

[Monitoring in surgery and resuscitation: current state, problems, and trends].

General problems of medical monitoring are discussed using monitoring in anesthesiology and resuscitation as an example. The current state of this important problem of biomedical engineering and perspectives of its further development based on sophisticated medical methods of measurement of vitally important parameters of patient are analyzed. The main emphasis was placed on the problems of collaboration between physicians and engineers in the development of monitoring systems and optimal information support of physicians during the use of monitoring systems in surgery and resuscitation.

[An analysis of the prospects for elaboration and production of narcosis and respiratory equipment].

The narcosis-and-respiratory equipment (NRE) is one of the most important categories of equipment in health care. The article contains analytical data on the structure of NRE and sales statistics; a classification of the methods of ventilation support is presented, the appearance of NRE types, developed by ZAO "VNIIMP-VITA" and serially manufactured, is described.

[Status and prospects of the development of anesthesia-respiratory equipment].

Anesthesia-respiratory equipment (ARE) mainly including assisted ventilation apparatuses, inhalation anesthesia apparatuses, as well as the monitors employed in the use of these apparatuses are and will be the lead on the market of medical equipment in Russia. Therefore it is important to consider the immediate prospects of ARE development. For each of the above three types of ARE, the paper briefly lists the current and promising applications, the sites of their use, procedures, principal quantitative requirement and design.