DISASTER MEDICINE No. 1 •2025

https://doi.org/10.33266/2070-1004-2025-1

ACTUAL PROBLEMS OF MEDICAL EVACUATION

Review article

Interregional Medical Evacuation of Patients and Victims in Emergency Situations: Problem Status

Reza A.V. 1

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

UDC 614.2:614.8

Pp. 65-70

 

Summary. The purpose of the study is to examine and analyze scientific publications devoted to the main problems of organizing and conducting interregional medical evacuation of patients and victims in emergency situations (ES).

Research materials and methods. Research materials – articles and scientific works of a number of domestic and foreign authors in the field of organizing and conducting interregional medical evacuation of patients and victims in ES.

Research methods – systemic and comprehensive approaches, methods of theoretical generalization and comparative analysis.

Research results and their analysis. Analysis of the research results showed that there are a number of problems in the field of organizing and conducting interregional medical evacuation of patients and victims in ES that require further study.

These problems include: the need to develop uniform organizational and methodological approaches to conducting interregional medical evacuation of patients and victims, including the creation of algorithms for its organization and implementation; scientific substantiation of the mechanisms for using various types of ambulance transport – air, rail, etc.; implementation of unified electronic databases and document flow; involvement of specialized medical consultants; training of medical personnel, etc.

Keywords: algorithms, air ambulance evacuation, disaster medicine, emergency medical care, emergency situations, interregional medical evacuation, medical evacuation, medical transport, medical treatment organizations, patients, routing, three-tier health care system, victims

For citation: Reza A.V. Interregional Medical Evacuation of Patients and Victims in Emergency Situations: Problem Status. Meditsina Katastrof = Disaster Medicine. 2025;1:65-70 (In Russ.). https://doi.org/10.33266/2070-1004-2025-1-65-70

 

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The material was received 30.01.25; the article after peer review procedure 07.02.25; the Editorial Board accepted the article for publication 13.03.25