[Infectious complications of severe trauma: achievements and problems]

On the base of treatment results obtained in 2000 casualties the pathogenically substantiated classification of infectious complications of the injuries and traumas was proposed. The principles of classification are in conformity with modern ideas connected with the conception of systemic inflammatory response, the theory of general adaptation and the concept of traumatic disease. The classification determines the purposeful diagnostic tactics and provides the preventative therapy of traumas' infectious complications. Selection of special direction in the surgery of injuries in order to solve the problem of traumas' infectious complications in scientific, methodical and practical aspects is substantiated. First of all it is creation of specialized centers that provide the introduction into medical practice of the modern conception of traumas' infectious complications.