Incidence of development and the results of treatment of post- operative peritonitis
Zavernyĭ, L.G.; Poĭda, A.I.; Mel'nik, V.M.; Tarasov, A.A.; Nadeev, S.S.; Morskoĭ, G.S.
Klinicheskaia Khirurgiia 4: 30-32
1991
ISSN/ISBN: 0023-2130 PMID: 1881074 Document Number: 387764
In the clinic at the period of from 1977 to 1987 after 13,006 operations on the abdominal organs, 185 patients (1.4%) ranging in age from 16 to 89 years developed peritonitis. The lethality after relaparotomy performed within the first 24 hours of the complication development was 15.9%, later on--73.7%. In spite of the large extent and trauma of radical relaparotomy, the lethality after it was 56%, after palliative one--90%. Timely is the performance of relaparotomy within the first 6 h from the moment of the complication development, in prolongation of the time to 7-12 h, the lethality was 12.5%.