The review of foreign literature highlights some principles of ensuring the patency of the patient‘s respiratory tract with subsequent artificial ventilation during resuscitation by an ambulance team.

This research is devoted to a retrospective analysis of the number of missions of the emergency medical service to adult patients that suffer from acute respiratory failure (ARF) of various severity in St. Petersburg during 2017. Gender and age characteristics of the groups of patients with ARF are presented. Nosologic forms of diseases that tend to be the most common reason of ARF are also identified. The analysis of immediate results of missions to the patients is presented.

Patients with respiratory distress often seek emergency medical care and are frequently transported by emergency medical services (EMS). Some of them are in need of urgent respiratory support.EMSencounters with patients in respiratory distress and the role of mechanical ventilation (MV) in their treatment have not been well documented. The study objective was to characterize the epidemiology of prehospital respiratory distress and the impact of MV at subsequent patient outcomes. Some of the new trends in prehospital respiratory therapy have also been described.

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