[Hemodynamic and rheological effects of polyetox in rats with crush syndrome].

Polyetox, a medicinal form of high-molecular-weight poly(ethylene oxide) (HMWPEO) improved peripheral blood supply, normalized the overall oxygen consumption, decreased erythrocyte aggregation, and reduced blood viscosity at low shear rate, and restored the antiturbulent properties (hydrodynamic index) of blood in the experiments on rats with crush syndrome. In rats with low resistance, polyetox increased the cardiac output.

Course of shock in rats with different resistance to shockogenic trauma during Crush syndrome.

Experiments on narcotized rats with crush syndrome showed that low resistant animals developed pronounced hypovolemia, hemoconcentration, blood hyperviscosity, impairment of oxygen metabolism, and central and peripheral hemodynamic disturbances, whereas in highly resistant rats the hemodynamics and oxygen supply to tissues were maintained at a sufficient level, while hemoconcentration and the increase in blood viscosity were less pronounced.

Relationship between rheological and hemodynamic changes in rats with crush syndrome.

Narcotized rats with crush syndrome develop severe syndrome of increased blood viscosity. A strict correlation was found between changes in blood viscosity at different shear rates and total peripheral vascular resistance. The severity of central hemodynamic and hemorheological disturbances was different in rats with different reaction of total peripheral vascular resistance to injury accompanied by shock.

[The antimicrobial activity of Augmentin (amoxicillin/clavulanic acid) compared to other antibacterial agents].

Sensitivity of clinical strains of gram-positive and gram-negative bacteria to Augmentin was studied in comparison to other antibiotics. Augmentin was shown to be advantageous in the level and spectrum of its antibacterial activity over ampicillin and other broad-spectrum antibiotics.

[Comparative evaluation of commercial test systems for the identification of gram-negative bacteria].

Diagnostic efficiency of 5 test-systems i.e. Enterotube 11, Oxi-Ferm Tube, API 20E, API 20NE and MS-2 BID was estimated comparatively with using collection and clinical strains of enteric bacteria and nonfermenting organisms.