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Unmanned aerial vehicles are an important force in search and rescue operations. They help reduce the time needed to search for and provide assistance to the wounded, sick and injured who are located at a large territorial distance and in hard-to-reach places. With the help of computer “vision” and sensors such as noise sensing, binary sensing, vibration and thermal sensing, drones are able to search for living patients not only in the sea, high in the mountains and in mines, but also buried under the rubble of buildings and structures. Such devices demonstrate advantages in emergency and urgent delivery of medical resuscitation and other medical equipment, medicines, blood products and organs for transplantation to patients, especially those in remote locations. With the help of drones, it is possible to effectively sort patients in case of mass sanitary losses, carry out disinfection and remotely monitor the health status of patients with highly contagious infectious diseases and other pathological conditions, as well as reduce the time for providing other medical and humanitarian services to the population. It is obvious that the use of drones requires further study of their promising capabilities, especially in the actual conditions of emergency medical services.

Telemedicine technologies for transmitting digital information about the patient are presented and characterized in the practice of application at the prehospital stage for clarifying the diagnosis, correcting the measures taken, efficient logistics and routing. High diagnostic accuracy and the possibility of round-the-clock diagnostics anywhere significantly improves the quality of medical care provided.

The issues of medical evacuation by ambulance transport are still widely discussed by specialists. The authors of the article analyzed, using a clinical case as an example, the capabilities of the aviation medical brigade in the conditions of the city of Moscow, as well as the interaction of all emergency services of the metropolis in an emergency situation.

The increase in the number of patients with complications of cardiovascular diseases and the need for early diagnosis of such complications and the early initiation of treatment already at the prehospital stage leads to an increasing need for more frequent use of helicopter medical equipment, as well as for equipping aviation medical teams with highly qualified specialists. The formation of a network of vascular invasive centers in the Moscow region, modern equipment and its use in air ambulance conditions require constant improvement of skills among medical workers. All this undoubtedly leads to positive results, the mortality rate from heart attacks and strokes decreases, the duration of treatment and the period of rehabilitation of patients are reduced. It should be noted that even 10 years ago, medical helicopters were used in the elimination of medical consequences in road accidents, fires and emergencies. Today, aviation medical teams are involved in more than 50% of cases with cardiovascular diseases, which undoubtedly speaks of the prospects for the development of medical aviation in large cities.

INTRODUCTION Based on the Ministry of Emergency Situations data megapolises note an annual increase of the emergency situations (ES). The increase of an urban population in Russia up to 73% results in considerable human victims in big cities due to thermal injuries among others.THE AIM of the present research is to analyze the structure of ES victims and the efficiency of the organization of a medical care for victims with thermal injuries in Moscow in 2016–2018.MATERIAl AND METHODS We have held a retrospective analysis of 113 cases of patients of a Burn Center of Sklifosovsky Research Institute for Emergency Medicine of the Moscow Health Department, and have studies the data of an automated informational analytical system named “Emergency Medicine” for 2016 2018.RESUlTS For an absolute number of victims, fires are on the third place among different emergencies in Moscow, but on the pre­hospitalization stage, the biggest number of deaths are registered (38,2%). The number of patients with thermal injuries reaches 31% among all the patients in hospitals. We note a multi­factor and a combined character of injuries characterized by a high mortality rate (9,8%).CONClUSION A present system of medical help for patients with thermal injuries, from the moment of ES fact to the hospitalization to multidisciplinary treatment­and­prophylactic organizations having an experience of specialized medical services, is a reliable and effective element of the health system.