[Pyosurgery departments in a multiprofile pediatric-surgery hospital]

In the Child Surgery Centre situated in a 9--storied building a special pus department, an isolated operating room and a "pus" unit in the intensive care division were designed for treatment of patients with suppurative-inflammatory diseases. The conducted bacteriological studies of the environmental objects and air made it possible to determine the presence of significant differences in qualitative and quantitative indices of contamination of the "pus" and "pure" departments, "pus" and "pure" units of the intensive care divisions, operating rooms with general microflora and pathogenic staphylococcus. Four-year observations (1970-1973) indicated that such functional divisions designed in a multipurpose hospital for treatment of patients with suppurative-inflammatory processes along with the routine prophylactic measures allowed a considerable reduction in the incidence of postoperative suppurative complications.