[Prevention of acute postoperative pancreatitis]

Results of an analysis of 4287 operations on organs of the abdomen have shown the frequency of acute pancreatitis after different surgical interventions to be 0,9%. This complication was more frequent after operations on the stomach (4,24%), less frequent after operations on biliary ducts (1,3%). Decompression of the biliary ducts and the gastro-intestinal tract reduced the frequency of acute pancreatitis after operations on the abdominal organs from 1,13% to 0,6%.