[Haemostasis disturbances as the component of the surgical stress-response and possibilities of their correction].

Objective: An estimation of haemostasis parameters in the major abdominal surgery in comparision with surgical stress-response markers depending on anaesthesia and analgesia technique.

Methods: 120 patients scheduled to undergo elective low-abdominal surgery were allocated to receive either general anaesthesia (n=40) or combined (general + epidural (n=40) or general + spinal (n=40)) anaesthesia. Postoperative analgesia, glucose, cortisol and cytokine levels, as well as coagulation, fibrinolysis, thrombocyte aggregation parameters were estimated.