[The role of anesthesiologists in the intensification of the activities of the surgical department].

The authors have widened the volume of clinical, biochemical and functional examinations of patients and introduced the examination by the anesthesiologist and other specialists under ambulatory conditions. The patients having concomitant diseases were given the necessary treatment at the prehospital stage. Most of the patients were operated upon in the day of their admission. The patients who needed preoperative preparation were operated in the nearest days (after performing intensive therapy). These measures allowed to shorten the average stay of the patients at the hospital from 16.1 to 10.3 days, and annually 600 patients were admitted additionally to the hospital at the department with 75 beds without an increase of the number of places.