Organization of Surgical Care for Patients with Abdominal Injuries in Peacetime Emergences

The tragic events of recent years have shown the need to radically rethink the approach to providing medical care to the population affected by peacetime emergencies. The very concept of “catastrophe” has acquired a very definite medical and organizational meaning today [33]. In the medical aspect, it is understood as a sudden, extremely dangerous event for the health and life of people, which caused a discrepancy between the acute need for medical care and the capabilities of the available forces and means of the medical service to provide it [36]. In this context, it is appropriate to note that the main thing in a disaster is not its size, but the available resources of survival [15]. That is why the early preparation for a meeting with the elements, allowing to resist the situation of confusion and chaos, is rightly called the cornerstone in the system of measures for the successful elimination of its consequences [26]. Even in small peacetime disasters (road accidents), due to low organization, lack of a clear action plan, and insufficient training of practitioners in extreme medicine, only about 50% of those in need receive emergency care [11]. It is obvious that the emergency requires a restructuring of the doctor's thinking from optimal individual to optimal collective medicine.