[Anxiety as a anesthesiological problem].

Fear is a feeling which always accompanies people. It is a compound phenomenon, which has different components as psychologic, motor, somatic-vegetative and metabolic. The operation and anesthesia increase the feeling of anxiety. The dimension of the fear has the inconvenient influence on the time of recovery, quantity of complications and the discomfort felt by patients. The dimension of the fear can be measured in many ways. The questionnaires are one of the methods of taking an objective measurement. The STAI is one of the most often used between them. It enables the estimation of the efficacy of the preoperative preparing methods and the dynamics of the fear during the hospitalization. Monitoring of the anxiety can be very useful in the decreasing the fear.