[Intensive care in patients with intra-abdominal septic complications]

The authors investigated diagnostic and therapeutic possibilities of intensive care units when treating septic conditions in intraabdominal surgery. The authors emphasize the comprehensive and systematic character of the follow up of patients who are threatened by sepsis. Care involves in particular aimed antimicrobial therapy, immunotherapy, normalization of haemodynamics and the acid-base balance and rational parenteral nutrition. Only a thus conceived therapeutic regime makes it possible to control such serious conditions as sepsis.