[Prognostic decisions in organizing rescue and other emergency accident-recovery operations in extreme situations]

The existing classifications of emergency situations have been analysed in the article. Based on their own experience, the authors propose a new approach to a problem of forecasting the activities of medical service in liquidation of the consequences of catastrophes. The classification worked out by the authors is specially tabulated, that makes it possible to take rapid prognostic decisions on organization of rescue and emergency actions.