[The organization and principles of rendering medical care to minor casualties in otorhinolaryngology].

The article deals with the notions of prior and coexistent ENT injuries. There are classification of mechanical injuries and ENT diseases, as well as rate and structure of ENT sanitary losses, and its evacuation and treatment procedures. The authors give gradations of slight, medium and severe ENT-injured and ENT-sick contingent, and set up the categories of minimally ENT sick, injured and wounded. The article also contains data concerning the treatment policy including immediate medical care at various stages of medical evacuation, and describes peculiarities of triage of different groups of ENT sick and injured. There are proposals for improvement of medical care to ENT sick, injured and wounded.