DISASTER MEDICINE No. 2 •2025

https://doi.org/10.33266/2070-1004-2025-2

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Typical (Main) Tasks Performed by the Joint Medical Teams of the Federal Medical and Biological Agency in Various Emergency Situations

M.A.Ratmanov1

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1 Federal Medical Biological Agency, Moscow, Russian Federation

UDC 614.8

P. 18-22

 

Summary. The objective of the study is to define and develop typical (main) tasks performed by the joint medical teams of the Federal Medical and Biological Agency (FMBA of Russia, the Agency) in providing medical care and conducting medical evacuation of victims and patients in various emergency situations.

Research materials and methods. Research materials are regulatory, administrative and methodological documents in force in the FMBA of Russia system on the problematic issue under study; survey cards for the status, use and functioning of the joint medical teams of the FMBA of Russia in the general system of medical evacuation support for victims and patients in emergency situations, completed by highly qualified medical specialists of the governing bodies, district medical centers, medical organizations of the second and third levels of the FMBA of Russia, with extensive experience in practical and scientific work; scientific papers devoted to the creation of mobile medical units and their activities to eliminate the medical and sanitary consequences of emergencies; reports and publications reflecting the experience of the FMBA of Russia joint medical teams involved in the liquidation of the consequences of various emergencies.

Research methods: historical method, methods of content analysis and expert assessment, logical and information modeling, statistical and analytical methods.

Research results and their analysis. The paper presents typical (main) tasks, substantiated and developed using the method of expert assessments and the results of the analysis of the experience of the Agency joint medical teams involved in the liquidation of the consequences of emergencies of various nature, which are recommended to be assigned to the joint medical teams during their work to eliminate the medical and sanitary consequences of emergencies.

A proposal was made on the advisability of considering the developed typical (main) tasks for their official approval and, in case of a positive decision, to include these tasks in the relevant regulatory and methodological documents.

Keywords: emergency situations, Federal Medical and Biological Agency, joint medical teams, medical care, medical evacuation, methodological documents, mobile medical units, regulatory documents, typical (main) tasks

For citation: Ratmanov M.A. Typical (Main) Tasks Performed by the Joint Medical Teams of the Federal Medical and Biological Agency in Various Emergency Situations. Meditsina Katastrof = Disaster Medicine. 2025;2: 18-22 (In Russ.). https://doi.org/10.33266/2070-1004-2025-2-18-22

 

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The material was received 04.02.25; the article after peer review procedure 14.03.25; the Editorial Board accepted the article for publication 16.06.25