The results of rendering the intensive care to 2244 patients with severe wounds and traumas were analyzed, which made it possible to define the most topical problems needed to be resolved, i.e. treatment schemes for patients with vegetative state (similar to coma) and with asthenic syndrome, perfection of intensive care for the elderly and absolutization of some intensive care techniques. Perspective solutions are suggested to cope with the above issues, which comprise a bigger quantity of rehabilitation centers, an elaboration of pathogenetic tactics of intensive care for the elderly patients and revising the feasibility of a long-term use of the intensive care methods with respect to the regulation and integration suppressed by such methods.