EXPERIENCE OF HEALTH MAINTENANCE OF THE MILITARY PERSONNEL IN THE ARCTIC IN THE DAILY ACTIVITIES AND EMERGENCY

• Main Authors: Azarov I.I., Butakov S.S., Zholus B.I., Zetkin A.Y., Remmer V.N.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: Russian
• Published: Baltic Medical Educational Center 2017
• Subjects: naval medicine;The Arctic;the Arctic zone of the Russian Federation;the Extreme North;a vegetation index of Kerdo;a physical activity;heat supply of the Arctic garrisons;mitigation of accidents consequences in the Extreme North;medical and medical-preventive mobile groups for mitigation of accident consequences; морская медицина;Арктика;Арктическая зона Российской Федерации;Крайний Север;вегетативный индекс Кердо;двигательная активность;теплоснабжение арктических гарнизонов;ликвидация последствий аварий на Крайнем Севере;лечебные и медико-профилактические подвижные группы для ликвидации последствий аварии; Arctic; Midland; Арктика; Крайн*; Крайний Север
• Online Access: https://seamed.bmoc-spb.ru/jour/article/view/175; https://doi.org/10.22328/2413-5747-2017-3-3-102-111

This article presents the points of life and health maintenance of the military personnel in the Arctic. The risk factors characteristic for the Extreme North conditions are given. Arrival of the person to the Arctic from a midland is followed by reaction of the autonomic nervous system estimated by means of a vegetation index of Kerdo. A physical activity of the person in the Arctic garrison was investigated. The authors give materials of events at emergency situations in the Arctic garrisons in cases of heat supply loss of residential and office buildings. Sanitary and anti-epidemic (preventive) actions at mitigation of accidents consequences on municipal objects are presented. The held complex of medical and preventive actions in the emergency garrison allowed to avoid epidemic consequences. Now the system of the prevention and elimination of emergency situations both on the scale of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation and garrison, military unit is created. At the same time the Main Military Medical Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation developed the official document regulating the activity organization of various medical formations in the emergency situations. The document («Methods») specifies not only the organization of rendering various types of medical assistance but also activity of mobile preventive groups (epidemiological, toxicological, radiological and toxico-radiological). The given materials testify the readiness of the health service of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation for mitigation of accidents and disasters consequences.