[Experience in organizing the surgical work of a garrison hospital in an armed conflict]

Voen Med Zh. 2000 Feb;321(2):4-11, 96.
[Article in Russian]

Abstract

The authors have summarized organizational experience of surgical work of garrison military hospital strengthened with specialized brigades during the period of armed conflict in Republic of Dagestan (August-September, 1999). From the start of active actions in order to render assistance specialized surgical teams from district military hospital equipped with special kits (at the rate of 7 operations/day during a week) were sent to garrison hospital. In this armed conflict there are features characterising both mine-and-explosive war in Afghanistan and sniper war in Chechen Republic resulting in increase in the number of seriously wounded (up to 46.7%) casualties during Botlikhskiĭ operation constituted 1:4, Novolakskiĭ (Kadarskiĭ)--1:5. Bullet injuries were fatal in 49.4% of the cases, fragmentation (including MET)--50.6%. During 1.5 month of hospital work there were performed 303 surgical interventions. 22.7% of slightly wounded from local garrisons were treated in garrison hospitals. Treatment results--postoperative lethality in gunshot trauma at the given stage constituted 1.1%.

Publication types

  • English Abstract

MeSH terms

  • Dagestan / epidemiology
  • Emergencies
  • Hospitals, Military / organization & administration*
  • Humans
  • Incidence
  • Military Personnel / statistics & numerical data
  • Surgery Department, Hospital / organization & administration*
  • Triage / organization & administration
  • Warfare*
  • Wounds and Injuries / epidemiology
  • Wounds and Injuries / surgery