[Experience using exchange plasmapheresis in the treatment of suppurative and septic complications]

An experience with using exchange plasmapheresis for treatment of 48 patients with pyo-septic complications has shown that it has a pronounced detoxicating effect, facilitates normalization of the biochemical composition of blood, reduces its toxicity, allows to prepare the patients to operations. The use of exchange plasmapheresis is indicated to patients with clinical and laboratory symptoms of intoxication when the arsenal of all the methods and means of treatment have failed.