“Disaster Medicine” Journal

DISASTER MEDICINE No. 2•2021

https://doi.org/10.33266/2070-1004-2021-2

Medical Support of Mass Events During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Problems and Possible Ways of their Solution

Demenko V.V.¹, Cheplyaev A.A.¹, Savvin Yu.N.¹, Prostakishin G.P.¹

¹ State Research Center – Burnasyan Federal Medical Biophysical Center of Federal Medical Biological Agency, Moscow, Russian Federation

UDC 614.461 (477.75)

Pp. 35-45

Abstract. The purpose of the study is to summarize the experience of organizing and implementing medical support for mass events by the specialists of the medical teams of the All-Russian Center for Disaster Medicine “Zashchita” in 2008–2019; to analyze and to assess the organization of medical support for the Tavrida Forum and Festival, as well as for the Final of the “Big Change” (“Bolshaya Peremena”) competition in the Republic of Crimea in 2020 in the face of the threat of the new coronavirus infection COVID-19 spread.

Materials and research methods. We analyzed the data of medical reports of specialists of the Field Multidisciplinary Hospital of the All-Russian Center for Disaster Medicine “Zashchita”, who participated in the medical support of mass events held in 2008–2020. The regulatory documents, scientific and methodological publications on the organization of medical support for public events, climatic and geographic conditions in the places of the Hospital’s deployment, legal and medical documentation on the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of COVID-19 were studied.

Research results and their analysis. A brief description of the medical support of mass events by the specialists of the Field Multidisciplinary Hospital of the All-Russian Center for Disaster Medicine “Zashchita” in 2008–2019 is given. The organization and implementation of medical support for mass events held in 2020 in the Republic of Crimea in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic are presented. The work of the Consolidated Medical Unit of the FMBA of Russia with the participation of specialists from the All-Russian Center for Disaster Medicine “Zashchita” is analyzed.

Key words: All-Russian Center for Disaster Medicine “Zashchita”, anti-epidemic measures, comprehensive medical support, consolidated medical unit of the FMBA of Russia, COVID-19 pandemic, field multidisciplinary hospital, isolation, mass events, medical evacuation, observation, Republic of Crimea, routing

For citation: Demenko V.V., Cheplyaev A.A., Savvin Yu.N., Prostakishin G.P. Medical Support of Mass Events During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Problems and Possible Ways of their Solution. Meditsina katastrof = Disaster Medicine. 2021;2:35-45 (In Russ.). https://doi.org/10.33266/2070-1004-2021-2-35-45

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The material was received 11.02.21; the article after peer review procedure 22.05.21; the Editorial Board accepted the article for publication 15.06.21