[The problems of ambulatory anesthesiology]

Prospects of the development of ambulatory anesthesiology are greatly dependent on understanding its problems caused by the specific character of work of the ambulatory polyclinical institutions. The most important of them is responsibility for safety of the patients during general anesthesia and after it as well as comfort feelings of the patients in the nearest postoperative period. The solution of these problems is related not only with qualification of anesthesiologists but also with the adequate, corresponding to the present-day level of the material technical supply of their work. Of special importance are the "postnarcosis" wards, ability of the personnel to evaluate the psychophysiological state of the patients and correspondence of their life conditions to the requirements of ambulatory anesthesiology.