The film tells about the work of the All-Union Center for Preventive Medicine to prevent cardiovascular diseases among the population.
Automobile transport and people on the streets of Moscow.
A fight between passengers for a seat in a taxi on the square in front of the Belorussian railway station.
Loading a stretcher with a patient into an ambulance.
The ambulance is heading to the hospital.
Ambulance doctors provide assistance to a man who became ill on the steps of an underground passage.
A passenger of an electric train with symptoms of a heart attack.
Doctor of the All-Union Center for Preventive Medicine A.V. Smolensky talks on the phone with a patient, invites him to undergo an examination (synchronously).
The face of a doctor talking on the phone.
Employees of the computing center at work.
Entering data into a computer.
Panorama of the hall, patients at the registration desk clarifying issues of admission and registration for an examination.
One of the patients undergoes preliminary registration before the examination, the registration employee enters data into the computer.
Questions and answer options of the preliminary electronic test on the monitor screen.
Patients undergo preliminary tests on a computer, read the questions out loud and answer them.
A receptionist is giving a consultation to a patient.
Magnetic tape with data installed in a computer.
Initial examination of patients with data entry into the computer memory, one of the patients on the scales.
Measuring the patient's height.
Taking the patient's cardiogram.
Printing out the cardiogram data from the computer printer.
Conducting a blood test for cholesterol content on an express machine, with the transfer of information to the computer.
Printing out the preliminary diagnosis.
The doctor talks to the patient, asks questions about his health (synchronously).
Conducting tests on exercise bikes.
The patient with sensors connected to his body rotates the pedals.
Measuring blood pressure during the test.
Cardiograph data on the monitor screen.
Attaching sensors to the patient's chest for daily monitoring of cardiac activity.
Connecting the sensors to a portable cardiograph, the doctor explains the rules for using the equipment (synchronously and off-screen).
The patient's completed daily diary.
The doctor removes from the device a film with a recording of the daily cardiogram.
The received data and diagrams on the monitor screen, records in the patient's diary.
The doctor at the computer.
1988
Moscow
Winter
An ultrasound scan of a patient's heart.
The patient's heart on the monitor screen.
A gamma camera examination of a patient.
The doctor records the examination data while looking at the monitor screen.
Data on the monitor screen.
The patient's heart on the monitor screen.
A printout of a medical report.
A poster calling on people to quit smoking.
The patient answers the doctor's questions about the reasons why he or she quit smoking and about unsuccessful independent attempts to quit the habit (synchronously).
An anti-smoking poster.
Broadcasting soothing music using a cassette recorder.
An image of the human eye.
Posters indicating acupuncture on the human body.
An acupuncture session with a patient who wants to quit smoking, with the hypnotist's voice playing in the background.
Needles in the edges of patients' ears.
A poster about the dangers of smoking.
The patient's face during an acupuncture session.
A doctor conducts a hypnosis session with those wishing to quit smoking, instills in the patient an aversion to the smell of tobacco and smoke, patients feel sick under hypnosis, the doctor's face.
A patient comes to see a nutritionist, the doctor talks to him about the dangers of high cholesterol and the need to follow a diet (synchronously), foods that cause an increase in cholesterol, on the doctor's table.
The doctor gives the patient recommendations on healthy eating (synchronously).
Magnetic tape with data in a computer.
The patient on a treadmill during an examination.
Printout of the patient's cardiogram.
Carrying out various analyses using a computer.
Printout of the analysis results.
Ultrasound examination of the patient's heart, the patient's face.
Entering data into the computer.
An employee of the center invites another patient by phone for an examination, agrees on the day of the appointment (synchronously).
1988
Moscow