[Tactics for treating acute intestinal obstruction]

Performance of infusion-transfusion therapy before the operation, suboperative intravenous administration of antibiotics, metrogil, sanitation of the abdominal cavity with the use of antiseptics, performance of transnasal intraoperative intubation of the small intestine, Hartmann operation in patients with cancer of the left colon complicated by acute ileus (AI), liquidation of ileus at operation permitted considerable improvement of treatment of the patients with AI. The incidence of postoperative complications reduced from 9.7 to 4.1%, lethality--from 12.6 to 5%.