[Total-body rheography in surgical diseases of the chest organs]

The method of integral rheography of the body allows to make quantitative and qualitative assessments of the cardiac activity, blood circulation level, systemic arterial tone, the degree of strain of the ventilatory function, volume of the extracellular fluid and some other parameters characteristic of the patient's state as a whole on the basis of a one-channel registration. The method of integral rheography of the body may be taken as a basis for the development of effective systems of the operative medical control of the state of critical patients and those operated upon as well as systems of mass examinations of the population.