[Diagnostics of sepsis in the patients presenting with pyo-inflammatory ENT pathology]

The objective of the present study was to develop the algorithm for early clinical, laboratory, and instrumental diagnostics of sepsis in the patients presenting with pyo-inflammatory ENT diseases. The study included 50 patients with pyo-inflammatory ENT diseases complicated by generalization of infection. The scheme (algorithm) developed for their examination allowed to diagnose sepsis at the early stages of hospitalization in the patients presenting with pyo-inflammatory ENT pathology. The diagnostic algorithm included the criteria for syndrome of systemic inflammatory reaction (SSIR), the Kalf-Kalif leukocytic intoxication index (LII), the procalcitonin test (PKT), the integral severity of illness scale (APACHE-II) and the organ failure assessment score (SOFA). Timely preoperative diagnostics of septic complications and sanation of the primary infection site in the combination with early intensive therapy under conditions of a resuscitation department made it possible to avoid further progress of generalization of the infection and thereby to reduce the number of secondary interventions, to improve prognosis of the disease, and lower the mortality rate down to 12% in the study group (compared with 44% in the control one).