Vestnik Rossiĭskoĭ akademii meditsinskikh nauk / Rossiĭskaia akademiia meditsinskikh nauk
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Vestn. Akad. Med. Nauk SSSR · Jan 2007
Review[Philosophic and medical aspects of palliative care and the problems of euthanasia].
The attitude of the society to the problem of euthanasia remains ambiguous from both moral and legal viewpoints. The authors review the attitudes of well-known philosophers, historians, and writers to the man's right for peaceful dying, and analyze various points of view on the problems of euthanasia. ⋯ The philosophy of modern palliative medicine must favor the realization of the right for a peaceful death. The authors of the article consider palliative care for the dying to be an alternative to euthanasia.
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Vestn. Akad. Med. Nauk SSSR · Jan 2007
Review[On the topical aspects of the activity of the Federal Service for Legal and Organizational Providence of the Activity in the Sphere of Sanitary and Epidemiological Providence and Consumer Rights].
The reorganization of the Federal Service on the Control Over the Sphere of Consumer Rights and Human Welfare has made it possible to significantly increase the number of specialists working in the sphere of consumer rights. In 2005, Federal Service on the Control Over the Sphere of Consumer Rights and its territorial organs carried out 155000 inspections of the legislation on consumer rights; more than 55% of them were off-schedule inspections of economic subjects. The inspections revealed almost 210000 facts of failure of the subjects to follow the rules of consumer legislation (140 reports on infringements). ⋯ Territory administrations present the main regional structure of the Federal Service. This should be taken into account when building relations between territory administrations and regional offices of the Federal Service. The main directions of the activity of the Federal Service in 2006 are determined by 15 December 2005 order #794 and include a vast list.
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Vestn. Akad. Med. Nauk SSSR · Jan 2005
Review[Modern technologies in pediatric diagnostics and intensive care].
New technologies of diagnostics of post-operative period complications in newborns (measure of procalcitonin level, serum wedge-shaped dehydration method), as well as introduction of discrete plasmopheresis and fiber-optic bronchoscopy via the laringeal mask, present necessery additions to traditinally used methods of treatment in a children's intensive care unit, improving the results of its work.
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Vestn. Akad. Med. Nauk SSSR · Jan 2005
Review[Fontan right heart bypass as a corrective procedure for congenital heart disease with single-ventricle hemodynamics].
Treatment of patients with complex cyanotic congenital heart disease is one of the most difficult problems in heart surgery. In a number of cases, when normal introcardiac hemodynamics is impossible to reestablish, the operation of choice consists in hemodynamic correction, which implies excluding the right heart from pulmonary circulation by rerouting venous blood directly to the lungs. ⋯ This method is associated with a relatively rare early and long-term complications. Improvement of outcomes can be achieved mainly via dividing the correction procedure into stages, including bidirectional cavapulmanal anastomosis, and via thorough selection and preoperative preparation of patients.
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Vestn. Akad. Med. Nauk SSSR · Jan 2003
Review Comparative Study[Current views on migraine and anti-migraine preparations].
On the basis of comprehensive experimental and clinical research the authors defined a variety of migraine-related mechanisms and schemes of migraine-correction by drugs, which should be both of the vascular- and general-actions to ensure an effective medication.