[The system of medical evacuation support for the troops at the present stage of development of military medicine].

The authors analyse the former and actual state of evacuation support of troops. Having been finally formed during the Great Patriotic War as the system of casualty staging it proved to be correct. At the same time this system has some deficiencies, namely: the repeated surgical intervention, multistaged character of evacuation, medical care and treatment. In the post-war period the improvement of this system is connected with a radical technical re-equipment of medical service, including modern evacuation facilities, as well as with rational assignment of medical specialists. Actually the assurance of an early (within first 6 hours) specialized medical care is considered to be the main task and the basic principle in the improvement of medical evacuation in troops.