[Supplementary criteria of evaluation of health status in selecting the personnel for work in coal mines].

200 newly-engaged young miners were medically examined in an outpatient department. The routine examination techniques were supplemented with studies of the changes after 2 minute-long inhalations of 0.6% acetylcholine chloride and mine dust (78 mg/m3), hemodynamics and electrocardiography indices, as well as the indices of the immunologic and hormonal state.

[Characteristics of the health status of mine rescue workers].

A detailed clinico-functional examination allowed to reveal changes in some systems of the body of mine rescuers, namely disorders of external respiratory function of obstructive, restrictive and mixed types, increased tone of the cerebral and peripheral vessels, reduction of their blood filling evidencing unfavourable effects on the rescuer's mechanism connected with psychoemotional overstrain and specific professional factors.

[Organizational and methodologic aspects of preventing ischemic heart disease in coal miners].

In the process of carrying out medikal checkups of miners a shop physician must take an active part in forming groups at risk of ischemic heart disease (IHD) and in ensuring dynamic preshift and postshift monitoring of the state of miners' cardiovascular system through the use of comprehensive methodological complex and further health promotion of this occupational group. Those attributed to the groups of extreme risk must discontinue their work in a mine. It was necessary to find some appropriate employment for them in order to avoid their contact with colliery occupational conditions.