[Specific anesthetic procedures in acute poisoning]

The decline of mortality rate in acute poisoning is connected with a completely altered method of treatment, namely the method of intensive treatment and extracorporeal elimination of the poisons. The anaesthetist plays a specific role in the treatment of acute poisoning since he cooperates with toxicologist and takes active part both in reanimation and intensive treatment of the poisoned. Anaesthetic procedure in toxicology is used as causal therapy and the part it plays is specific especially in extracorporeal elimination of the poison from the body. The authors of these studies discussed the methods of anaesthetic treatment in acute poisoning and presented its dynamic use in the period from 1966 to 1937 in the Toxicological Clinic of the Medical Academy in Kraków.