[Laser use in the prevention and treatment of suppurative-infectious complications in abdominal surgery]

From 1986, into the complex of treatment of 284 patients with inflammatory diseases of the abdominal organs, the irradiation by the helium-neon laser according to the scheme developed was included. There were no complications related to the use of a laser. Mean duration of treatment the patients in a hospital in circumscribed peritonitis reduced from 16.8 to 14.7 days, in diffuse peritonitis--from 35.1 to 27.4 days; the postoperative lethality reduced from 12 to 6%.