[Use of the solutions of hydroxyethyl starch and reamberin in the combined treatment of severe gestosis].

The effects of the solutions of hydroethyl starch (HES) and reamberin on hemodynamics, metabolism, and water-sector disorders were studied in patients with severe gestosis. The study covered 42 puerperas who were divided into 3 groups: 1) 10 patients with severe gestosis and normal acid-alkali balance (AAB); 2) 10 with severe gestosis and metabolic acidosis; 3) 22 pueperas with physiological single pregnancy (a control group). Group 1 patients were given infusions of 6% HES solution, 5-6 ml/kg; Group 2 received in addition to 6% HES solution in the above dose infusions of 1.

[Postpartum emergencies: some aspects].

The critical states occurring during pregnancy, labor, and early puerperium were analyzed. Seventy puerperas treated at intensive care units (ICU) were examined. The patients were divided into 5 groups: 1) those with preeclampsia (n = 15); 2) eclampsia (n = 22); 3) massive blood loss (n = 17); 4) pyoseptic complications (n = 10); 5) acute respiratory failure (n = 6).

[Use of orthostasis during artificial pulmonary ventilation in patients with acute parenchymal pulmonary lesion].

The paper contains the results of a study involving an inclined body positioning (45 degrees orthostasis) under the conditions of artificial pulmonary ventilation applied to patients with acute parenchymatous pulmonary lesion of different etiologies. The impact of the method produced on pulmonary gas exchange, hemodynamics, transport and consumption of oxygen as well as its efficiency and disadvantages, indications and contraindications are in the focus of attention.

[Role of autoPEEP in the optimization of the respiratory pattern in patients with acute parenchymatous lung diseases].

The paper presents the results of a study of the impact of autoPEEP (positive end-expiratory pressure) on gas exchange in the lungs, their biomechanical characteristics, the transport and consumption of oxygen by inverting the inspiration/expiration ratio under the volume-controlled mechanical ventilation of the lung (VCMVL) in patients with acute parenchymatous lung lesion, as well as how to choose the optimum inspiration/expiration ratio in VCMVL by analyzing the pattern of total PEEP (the sum of positioning and autoPEEP) in this group of patients.