[Organization of treatment and diagnosis of hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome in Udmurtiia].

The paper presents basic parameters that characterize the status of prevention, treatment, diagnosis, and rehabilitation in hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome (HFRS). The data from the epidemiological surveillance in the republic indicate the poor epidemic situation: with decreased immunization there are rises in morbidity and viral infection from the main source bank voles. The paper suggests possible ways of improving preventive measures.

[High-frequency artificial ventilation of the lungs in the postoperative period of neurosurgical patients].

The authors examined 80 patients who underwent operation on the brain and upper parts of the spinal cord. The control group of patients who had been operated on in the same period of time did not differ essentially from the group studied in number, sex, age, character and severity of the operative interventions, and the principles of postoperative intensive therapy. All the patients had no concomitant pathological conditions of the organs of respiration and circulation and required prolonged postoperative artificial ventilation of the lungs (AVL).