All-Union conference on the study of gas exchange

The conference was convened in honor of the 40th anniversary of the TASSR. It was attended by doctors and engineers. The report of prof. A. G. Teregulov (Kazan), which emphasized the importance of the latest gas analytical equipment in the diagnosis of the correlation of gas exchange in pulmonary diseases. The speech of the chief engineer of SKTB-MFP M. I. Abdrakhmanov (Kazan) dealt with the prospects for the development of domestic medical gas analytical equipment. The open and closed devices currently used in the clinic, based on the mechanochemical method for determining gas exchange, do not meet all the requirements of modern physiology and clinical practice. Another promising task is the introduction into the clinic of small-sized equipment based on the physical principles of determining the gas composition.