[Treatment of obstetrical infection]

Obstetrical sepsis is one of the most important causes of maternal mortality. An obligatory procedure in the management of sepsis is liquidation of the infection focus. For this purpose drainage and irrigation of the uterine cavity with Baliz-2, an antiseptic solution, were included in the complex of therapeutic measures for 49 patients with the purulent focus in the uterus. The focus was liquidated in all the cases, no complications were recorded. This recommends such procedure for the treatment of patients with obstetrical sepsis.