[Anesthesiology consulting unit in perioperative medicine].

There is a demand, caused by increase of one-day surgery, surgery of high risk patients with coexisting diseases, and growing need for patient education, for such improvement of preoperative preparation, which will enable an optimalization in patient care. That became a special task of Preanesthetic Evaluation Clinic. The aim of the paper was to analyze activity of local Preanesthetic Evaluation Clinic in years 1993-2000.