[Surgical correction of circulatory disturbance of the vertebral artery in trauma and degenerative diseases].

The article presents the results of examination and surgery of 185 patients with degenerative diseases as well as with a cervical spine trauma. The circulatory disturbance of the vertebral artery took place in all patients. A different degree of changes was observed in color duplex scanning.

[Algorithm of diagnostics and surgery of trauma and degenerative diseases of cervical spine].

A retrospective analysis of diagnostics and surgery in 240 patients was made. The vertebral spinal trauma took place in 168 patients (average age 31 +/- 5 years), degenerative dystrophic diseases of spine were in 72 patients (average age 52 +/- 7 years). The clinicodiagnostic complex included survey and functional radiography of the spine, magnetic resonance image and helical computer tomography of the spine with spondylometric measurements and color duplex scanning of the vertebral artery.

[The role of duplex scanning in diagnosing extravasal compression of vertebral arteries in degenerative diseases of the cervical part of the spine].

The method of duplex scanning was used in examination of 210 patients with degenerative-dystrophic diseases of the cervical part of the spine. It allows quantitative and qualitative assessment of the local and systemic hemodynamic value of extravasal compression of vertebral arteries. Local hemodynamic shifts in the area of extravasal influences on the artery were detected in 72.

[Problems of organizing home nursing].

Nursing has been practiced for centuries. Public health reformation suggests further development of nursing care, particularly at the level of primary health care, and improvement of the status of a nurse in the society and her role in the public health system. Outpatient forms of nursing care are regarded as the most effective nurse's services.