Vol 1, No 1 (2015)

Two groups of recruits were examined at a navy training center in the North-European Russia. Group 1 comprised 37 conscripts from the southern regions of Russia. Group 2 comprised 37 conscripts from the northern regions of Russia. The objective of the examination was to determine the specific features of variability of heartbeat of military men during the initial period of their service under northern conditions. A «Polar» heartbeat monitor was used for rhythmocardiographic recordings. Heartbeat variability was analysed by quantitative assessment of histograms using simple statistics, spectral analysis, and wavelet analysis. In Group 1 recruits, changes in heartbeat regulation observed from the first through the fifth month of service were attributed to an increase in the sympathetic tonus of the vegetative nervous system. In Group 1 recruits, the first three months of their service were associated with an appreciably high tonus of the parasympathetic system; however, starting from the fourth month, manifestations of an increase in the influence of the sympathetic branch of vegetative nervous system on heartbeat were found.

Data on cardiovascular diseases at divers are analysed. Experience of stationary medical inspection of navy diving staff in clinic of naval therapy of Military-medical academy n.a. S.M. Kirov is generalized. We described the case of cardiovascular pathology at the acting diver and offered the measures for improvement of stationary diagnostics of cardiovascular diseases at navy divers.

The current state of affairs in applied and basic research related to hyperbaric medicine is reviewed. Performance characteristics of modern domestically designed diving pressure chambers and diving complects having modular, mobile and ambulatory designs are discussed. The analysis suggests that the performance and design characteristics of available pressure chambers and complexes comprising them to not conform to modern medico-technical requirements and current economic actuals. To develop an adequate practice of hyperbaric medical treatment, it is necessary, along with practicing a systemic approach to solving the problems of medical security of rescue and diving operations, to radically revise the organization of research-and-development work aimed at designing promising technical means for hyperbaric medicine.

The newly enacted normative document of the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation «The Norms of Navy Ships and Boats Provision with Health-Care Stores» was elaborated in the course of modernization of the procedure of setting the norms of health-care stores of military corps (forces). The novel procedure of setting the norms of health-care stores of ships and boats is fully adapted to the present-time navy war-strength and to the personnel arrangement of medical corps at the level of ships and boats. The implementation of the modern norms of health-care stores provision in the practices of military administration and navy ship and boat medical corps will increase the quality and effectiveness of crew health care and the combat readiness of navy personnel.

Major events in the history of the navy medicine facility founded by the tzar Peter I in the naval capital of Russia, the city of Saint Petersburg, on 27 October 2015 are highlighted. The current aspects of its operation are discussed.

In 2013, staff of the Military medical Academy. S.M. Kirov published excellent research monograph: the Book was published under the editorship of head of the Academy of doctors of medical science, Professor, major-General of medical services A.N. Belsky. The publication is dedicated scientists, who graduated from the Military medical (Medical-surgical) Academy and Baptist - hospital schools under the Generalland and General Admiralty hospitals, naval medical Academy or working within their walls. There is no doubt that the book will find a wide readership among military doctors, medical historians, scientists, students and faculty of the Military medical Academy.