Problems of legal support of the safety of healthcare workers in performing their official and professional duties

Encroachment on the life and health of healthcare workers in performing their official and professional duties has been one of the most serious medical and social problems in the past decade. There are regular attacks on ambulance workers and health care facility physicians in almost every region of the Russian Federation. Being a healthcare worker is no less dangerous than being law enforcement officer, an official of the Ministry of Emergency Situations, or other emergency-related professionals. At the same time, there are no special, relevant legislative acts establishing the rights, duties, and responsibility of citizens for such crimes. The effective mechanism for legal regulation of the protection of healthcare workers in performing their official duties has not been worked out. The government’s increased responsibility for the life of a person performing professional duties should be established by special provisions that will be embodied in different branches of procedural law, creating a consistent chain of legislative regulations of the protection of legal relations, rather than by the common law rule that declaratively proclaims that the person must be protected from any encroachments. The authors of the paper substantiate the need to revise the current criminal legislation in terms of establishing additional guarantees that ensure the protection of the life and health of healthcare workers in performing their duties, and make proposals for its improvement. © 2018, Media Sphera Publishing Group. All rights reserved

Experimental and theoretical studies of CO2 spectra for planetary atmosphere modelling: region 600-9650 cm-1 and pressures up to 60 atm

International audienceExtensive experimental studies of room-temperature carbon dioxide absorption coefficients are reported for a wide range of wavenumbers and pressures requested in atmospheric spectra modelling. The quality of measurements is optimised by the use of two complementary setups with long- and short-path optical cells for low and high gas densities, respectively. The recorded spectra provide a representative picture of band-shape evolutions from gaseous to nearly liquid phases of CO2 and enable a theoretical analysis of line-mixing effects. Various kinds of vibrational bands (Σ ← Σ, Π ← Σ as well as Π ← Π transitions) are modelled using a specific, non-Markovian in the general case, approach of Energy-Corrected Sudden type which is based on the symmetric relaxation matrix and, in contrast to the standard ECS model used for infrared absorption calculations, ensures automatically the fundamental relations of detailed balance and double-sided sum rules. Moreover, this method properly accounts for the vibrational angular momenta of the initial and final molecular states and allows including Coriolis resonances via the usual Herman-Wallis factors in the dipole transition moments. With a set of ECS parameters previously obtained for isotropic and anisotropic Raman spectra modelling, completely neglected imaginary part of the relaxation operator and a simple change in the tensorial rank to get the dipole absorption case in the working formulae, the computed spectra reproduce quite correctly the vibrotational band shapes up to 20 amagat without any additional parameter. An empirical correction factor tentatively introduced to account globally for the Coriolis effects on the relaxation matrix leads to better matches with high-density band shapes but its role merits further studies with an accurately modelled imaginary part of the relaxation matrix

The current state of telemedicine development in Russia: Legal and legislative regulation

The paper considers the current state, development and introduction of telemedicine in the Russian Federation in accordance with the current national/federal regulatory and legal acts and scientific publications. It also presents the actual problems of obtaining and providing medical services through telemedicine technologies. Main emphasis is laid on the legal status of a healthcare worker in providing medical care through telemedicine technologies; possible problems that a doctor or another healthcare worker associated with telemedicine may face are identified. © 2019, Media Sphera Publishing Group. All rights reserved

Fundamentals of legal regulation of administrative and judicial procedures related to compulsory medical intervention: The experience of foreign countries

The paper analyzes the legal regulation of administrative and judicial procedures related to compulsory medical intervention. Relying on foreign experience in this field, the authors compare the legal guidelines of countries in this area, focusing on different legal practices in this area. Since compulsory medical intervention is associated with the restriction of human rights, the article draws attention to international legal standards in the studied direction. © 2019, Media Sphera Publishing Group. All rights reserved