Effectiveness of the Fast Track Surgery Program for Patients with Planned Cholecystectomy.

Purpose: This study analyzed the effectiveness of minimizing surgical trauma, reducing the severity of the stress reaction, and restoring the normal functioning of the body after planned gallbladder operations under an enhanced recovery program.

Materials And Methods: This prospective comparison study included 30 patients from the surgical department of Irkutsk Clinical Hospital No. 1 who had been diagnosed with cholelithiasis in 2019-2020.

[Monitoring upper respiratory tract diseases among workers engaged into contemporary tobacco industry and justifying occupational causes of those diseases occurrence].

Analysis of prevalence of upper respiratory tract diseases among workers engaged into contemporary tobacco production based a conclusion that tobacco dust could cause upper respiratory tract diseases progress, even with no rise of the MAC, therefore these diseases could be occupationally induced.

[Impact of working conditions on morbidity accompanied by temporary disability in workers at the present-day tobacco plants].

By analyzing morbidity accompanied by temporary disability in workers at two tobacco plants, the authors conclude that their working conditions and the organization of medical aid to them have an impact on the pattern of morbidity and the health status of the workers.

[Municipal sewage treatment plants as sources of environmental air pollution].

Municipal sewage works as sources of ambient air pollution were studied. Mechanical cleaning catch frames, primary settlers, aero-tanks, and sludge sites are the major air pollution sources. The most important air pollutants are ammonia and hydrogen sulfide.