[Military medical doctrine--the scientific basis for medical support of the Armed Forces]

Basing upon the experience of soviet medicine during the Great Patriotic War, organization of medical security of the Troops and Navy personnel in the post-war period, especially during the war in Afghanistan and local military conflicts and analysis of modern tendencies in military medicine development in the armies of foreign countries the authors formulate the principles of military-medical doctrine of the Armed Forces. The authors consider the following organizing principles of military-medical doctrine to be the main ones: the use of medical service mobile forces relying on the territorial system of troops medical security; focusing of the main medical service efforts at crucial moment in the necessary direction; maximal approximation of its forces and means to the regions of sanitary loss occurrence; wide use of the automatic managing systems; optimization of the Mobile Forces medical security as a type of the Armed Forces; similar approaches to the treatment of wounds caused by the weapons of modern types; maximal reduction of the medical evacuation stages; early and active detection of visceral complications in the wounded; selection of the infectious patients into separate stream, their treatment and rehabilitation in the specialized hospitals.