[Medical support of the Navy ships during long-term sailing]

The article presents peculiarities of organization of medical equipment of ships on service. The main of them are: a big farness from the base, necessity of realizing a qualified medical aid on the board because of uncapability of evacuation the patients to medical treatment facility in time, unsteady sanitarian-epidemiological status in areas of floats and in places of put in, influence of negative factors of inhabitation of ships, which calls different changes in functional condition of staff. Medical security consists of 3 parts: avance-float period, float period and after-float period. Such periodicity allows dividing efforts of medical security more professionally. The authors presents data, based on the experience of medical securing of the ships of crash team, created in the Northern Navy during the period from 3.12.2007 to 3.02.2008, realized a float from the base to Mediterranean Sea and back. Total distance was 15 sea miles, total duration was 62 days.