REHABILITATION OF PATIENTS IN CHRONIC CRITICAL STATES DUE TO BRAIN DAMAGE IN CONDITIONS OF RESUSCITATION AND INTENSIVE CARE UNITS: THE EXPERIENCE OF THE FEDERAL RESEARCH AND CLINICAL CENTER

Abstract

The article presents the experience of the Federal Research and Clinical Center of Intensive Care Medicine and Rehabilitology for the organization of medical care for patients in long-term (chronic) critical conditions due to the craniocerebral trauma, stroke, and surgical treatment of brain tumors who needs to be provided the functioning of vital organs against the background of prolonged impairment of consciousness, including methods of excommunication from the apparatus of artificial ventilation, medical correction of the level of consciousness, adequate general symptomatic treatment, nutritional-metabolic therapy and early rehabilitation by multidisciplinary medical teams.