FEATURES OF ARRANGEMENT OF MEDICAL CARE FOR VICTIMS OF ROAD TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS IN REGIONS OF RUSSIA WITH LOW POPULATION DENSITY

• Main Authors: Баранов, А.В., Кубасов, Р.В., Лукашов, А.Г.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: Russian
• Published: Благотворительный фонд Центра охраны здоровья шахтеров 2020
• Subjects: road traffic accidents; road traffic injuries; polytrauma; regions of Russia with low population density; the Arctic; дорожно-транспортные происшествия; дорожно-транспортный травматизм; политравма; регионы России с низкой плотностью населения; Арктика; Arctic
• Online Access: http://poly-trauma.ru/index.php/pt/article/view/260

Objective − to review the data of Russian and foreign literature on the organization of providing medical care to victims in road traffic accidents in the regions of Russia with low population density in order to identify features and determine ways to improve it.Materials and methods. The analysis of the results of Russian and foreign scientific studies and regulatory legal acts on the problems of providing first aid to victims of road traffic accidents was carried out. A literature search was conducted in the specialized scientific search systems eLibrary, PubMed, Scopus, by keywords: road traffic trauma, road traffic accident, regions with low population density, medical care, prehospital period, hospital period. For the analysis, scientific articles published between 1980 and 2020 were selected. Resources with outdated or inaccurate information were excluded, some scientific research works were found using links to articles. The state of the problem of providing first aid to victims with road traffic trauma is mainly reflected in scientific publications over the past ten years.Results. The main climatic-geographical and medical-social characteristics of the studied regions and areas of Russia with the low population density were noted, which predetermined the occurrence of road traffic accidents with medical consequences and worsen the possibility for timely and qualified medical care to victims at all stages of medical evacuation.Conclusion. The ways to improve the providing of medical care for injured patients in road traffic accidents in Russian regions with low population density were proposed. The need for sufficient transport pool in the region to carry out the sanitary evacuation of victims was indentified, especially its aeromedical component. The need for the adoption and implementation by the government of significant socio-economic measures to recruit and solidify medical personnel in these territories was revealed, as well as the implementation of systemic medical register of sanitary ...