Introduction:Providing qualified emergency assistance to members of vessel`s crew on on flights with occupational open fractures in a ship medical center, choosing the right tactics and adequate treatment allows to reduce the number of complications, shorten rehabilitation periods and retain personnel in the fleet.Material and methods: An analysis of the treatment of 151 patients with occupational open fractures that were injured in the ship's conditions during the performance of cruise tasks in the Northern Water`s Basin was carried out. The control group consisted of 705 victims who had closed fractures on ships. Analytical and statistical methods were used when working on the material. The significance of differences was calculated using Student's t-criteria for independent samples.
Results:In the structure of the total occupational traumatism of members of vessel`s crew of the Northern Water`s Basin, fractures of bones of different localization amounted to 38.6%, then open among them -17.6% (10.7 frequency per 1000 workers) or 6.8% of the total number of injuries. Two thirds of occupational open fractures (60.8%) were received by sailors and engine mechanics. Alcohol intoxication was observed in 4.5% of victims. In flights, open fractures occur much more frequently (42.1%) than closed ones (34.6%). When performing flights at high latitudes, their share is higher (17.3%) compared to closed ones (13.9%), which is associated with the adverse effect of the complex of meteorological factors of polar navigation. After the occurrence of injuries were hospitalized in the surgical hospital in the first 6 hours -71.1% of victims, the first day -84.7%. The frequency of surgical treatment of open fractures is 1.8 times higher than with closed ones. The number of complications with open fractures is also almost 1.9 times higher than in the control group, and their proportion reaches 32.2%.Discussion: Based on the structure and localization of open fractures, the ship's doctor faces complex tactical measures in providing adequate qualified assistance, conducting diagnostic procedures, primary surgical treatment of wounds, manual reposition of bone fragments and imposition of transport immobilization during the evacuation of the victim. Antibacterial therapy for open fractures is carried out with therapeutic and preventive purposes in all cases. All victims of the number of members of vessel`s crew with open fractures should be prevented from tetanus and anaerobic infection with the introduction of tetanus toxoid and antifungal serum.Results: Occupational open fractures of members of vessel`s crew of the Northern Water`s Basin, fractures of bones of different localization amount to 17.6% (10.7 frequency per 1000 workers) of the total number of fractures or 6.8% of the total number of injuries.1. The highest risk of receiving open fractures when performing ship works related to: servicing and repairing machinery of the engine room, deck equipment, mooring operations, loading and unloading by the crew, closing the holds and h...