[Extracorporeal detoxication in combined treatment of surgical sepsis].

The methods of extracorporeal detoxication acquire special importance in combined treatment of sepsis. The sessions of plasmapheresis, hemodialysis and isolated ultrafiltration were performed in 61 of 83 patients with sepsis. Indications to these methods are determined, their efficacy is evaluated.

[Debatable questions of surgical sepsis treatment and diagnosis].

On the basis of critical analysis of the results of combined treatment of 73 patients, the authors suggested that sepsis could be diagnosed only in the presence of systemic inflammatory response, multiorganic insufficiency and obligatory isolation of hemoculture. The microorganisms' specimen from the infected area and the blood are not identical both in primary and repeated inoculation. Impossibility to verify the pathogenic microorganism in the blood prevents from carrying out adequate and purposeful treatment.

[Immunotherapy of surgical sepsis].

The results of treatment of 73 patients with surgical sepsis are analysed. 57% of the patients were older than 60 years. In 35.

[Diagnosis and treatment of septicemia].

There were 52 patients with sepsis, 61.6% were over 60 years of age (63.3% of patients had septicemia, 36.