Experience and perspectives of automatization of work in a polyclinic

On-stage development of subsystems, automating the work of a polyclinic, previously was oriented to the departments of Automated Systems of Management at industrial enterprises and computers of ES type, at present a number of subsystems has been developed and are being developed which are oriented to personal computers and mini-computers of SM type which are being installed directly at the polyclinics. All subsystems are consolidated on the basis of systems approach.     

Results of the complex treatment of acute destructive pancreatitis

Results of treatment of 4018 patients with acute pancreatitis (including 267 cases of destructive pancreatitis) for the last decade has shown that no promising results were obtained in spite of the introduction of new surgical and nonsurgical methods into clinical practice. High percent of lethal outcomes (70%) among patients with acute pancreatitis who have acute gastric ulcers, and the absence of clear understanding of the mechanisms require further investigation of the problem.     

Diagnostic aspects of ischemic abdominal visceropathy

The clinical picture and results of instrumental and laboratory investigation of 60 patients suffering from atherosclerosis of unpaired branches of the abdominal aorta with the involvement of the digestive system (ischemic abdominal visceropathy) were analyzed. A scheme of combined clinico-instrumental diagnosis of abdominal atherosclerosis to be made in a hospital was developed.     

Preparation of 2,6-dinitro-p-toluic acid from p-toluic acid

Translated from Khimiko-farmatsevticheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 24, No. 12, pp. 55–58, December, 1990.     

Epidemiology of persistent diarrhea among Guatemalan rural children

A prospective, longitudinal two-year study to determine the epidemiology of persistent ( 14 days'duration) diarrhea in rural children of Guatemala was undertaken. Three-hundred and twenty-one children aged 0-35 months were kept under surveillance by twice-a-week home visits. The overall incidence of diarrhea was 0.147 per child-week; the incidence of persistent diarrhea was 0.014 per child-week. The peak of persistent diarrhea was observed in infants below six months of age, with a continuous decline thereafter. This trend in incidence of persistent diarrhea was associated with a higher proportion (16%) of illnesses persisting for more than 13 days in children younger than six months of age as compared to children 30-35 months old (4%). Males had more diarrhea (0.156 per child-week) than females (0.139 per child week). Among children above 18 months of age, the proportion of episodes that lasted for more than 13 days was lower in females than in males.