The book is a practical guide, which briefly presents the issues of clinical physiology and pharmacology, general and private anesthesiology. Much attention is paid to the choice of anesthesia depending on concomitant diseases, complications of anesthesia - their prevention and treatment. In addition, the guide presents important for the practice of the anesthesiologist information about the integrated scales for assessing the condition of patients, postoperative analgesia, prevention of thromboembolic complications and stress of gastrointestinal tract lesions .. Separate sections of the manual are devoted to sepsis and acute lung injury syndrome.