[Anesthesiology in urgent operations in treating heart wounds].

Experience of treating 11 patients with knife wounds of the heart in a central district hospital is reviewed. Limited preoperative period, intensive therapy of hemorrhagic shock, readiness of a surgical and anesthesiological teams to perform a wide range of resuscitation procedures in the course of the operation, prophylaxis, timely and adequate therapy of complications arising in the postoperative period--all help to obtain good results.