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The second part of the research is devoted to problems of the personnel labor load, to maintenance of reanimation asepsis, to analysis of the complications of intensive care, the causes and outcomes of these complications. A total system approach allows, as the authors believe, an objective assessment of the prerequisites of complications in expert evaluations.

Using the suggested information mathematical model of reanimation activity, realized in an administrative computer program, the authors carry out a total system analysis of the activity of the intensive care and reanimation unit of a multi-discipline hospital in the town of Arkhangelsk. They discuss the problems of present-day equipment and modernization, formation of the patient populations, improvement of the resuscitation methods, and the policy of reanimation bed use. They recommend that along with the traditional activities, such department should take part in the prevention of grave states in inpatients of all departments of the hospital.

The experience of the use of single and prolonged nasogastric intubation of the small intestine in 286 urgent patients in Arkhangelsk clinical hospital No. I has been reviewed and the peculiarities and drawbacks of the technique have been assessed from the point of view of the anesthesiologist and intensive care specialist. A special technique of respiratory airway protection during intestinal intubation is described and recommendations on intensive care as well as control over tubing location and patency in the postoperative period that can adequately prevent potential complications are outlined.