[Emergency endoscopy in acute gastrointestinal hemorrhage in aerospace medicine].

Air-surgeons of the sanitary aviation department of the Vologda Regional Hospital analysed 279 summons to patients with acute gastrointestinal hemorrhage living in the districts of the region. They came to the conclusion that emergency gastroduodenoscopy allowed air-surgeons to identify the source of the bleeding in 97.64% of patients, determine the rational therapeutic tactics, and reach a well-grounded decision on evacuation of the patients to the regional hospital, as a result of which mortality reduced by more than half.