Possibility of predicting and preventing postoperative complications leading to relaparotomy
Gostishchev, V.K.; Revenko, N.M.; Alekseev, E.A.; Dubova, M.N.
Vestnik Khirurgii Imeni I. I. Grekova 134(1): 54-60
1985
ISSN/ISBN: 0042-4625 PMID: 3992806 Document Number: 265379
The occurrence of relaparotomies is known to be 1,2% of operations on the abdomen organs. Pyo-inflammatory complications are responsible for more than half cases resulting in relaparotomies. Relaparotomies are divided into emergent and urgent, radical and palliative. A system for prognosis of complications and differential diagnosis of postoperative paresis of the gastro-intestinal tract and postoperative peritonitis is presented. Prophylactics of postoperative complications reduced lethality after relaparotomies from 79% to 56%.