[The pathogenetic and treatment characteristics of general suppurative infection in multiple gunshot wounds]

A profound analysis of 32 cases of general purulent infection that led to aggravation of multiple gunshot injuries proves the pathogenetical connection between the character of trauma, health status of patient and possibility for sepsis development. The main factors which determine the appearance and the course of wound sepsis are the following: the character of reaction of the organism to trauma, volume of invaded tissues, adequacy of health care, type and virulence of agents of the infection. The state of vital systems of human organism as well as the possibilities of medical care play an important role in the sepsis development in the acute period of wound illness. The major part of repeated interventions was conditioned by defects of the first surgical management. The opportune diagnosis on an early phase of sepsis, i.e. toxemia, is of great importance for the determining of tactics for the treatment and for complex intensive therapy in which hyperbaric oxygenation will assume a key role.