Evacuation of seriously burned patients of foreign armies in conditions of local wars and armed conflicts
Burns as one of the severe types of combat trauma have always been among the sanitary casualties of all local wars and armed conflicts. And questions about the improvement of the system of rendering medical care to seriously burned patients remain actual until now.We present information about the number of injured people with severe thermal trauma during local wars and armed conflicts of foreign countries. Especially this problem has been actualized since the XX century, when there were many sanitary casualties because of burns during wars due to the improvement of military weapons. It is shown that the main principle of the organization of care for seriously burned patients is stage treatment. The most effective methods of delivery of burned persons to the points of specialized medical care, as well as the main specialized burn centers in foreign countries. An important attainment was the development of airmobile evacuation, which gives a possibility of fast transportation of burned in critical condition that allows keeping them alive. It is established that, despite the possibility of aviation transport to move patients quickly over long distances, a changes of altitude can make an adverse effect on seriously burned patients. The need for early delivery of injured people to specialized care and early surgical treatment is shown, which is important for assessing the results of treatment of injured people with severe burns. The analyzed literary data will be actual forever when choosing a strategy for the treatment of injured with extensive and deep burns at the stages of medical evacuation, which will allow to make a significant impact on the results of wound healing.