Infectious problems in pelvic trauma.

Pelvic injury provides a challenge to the trauma surgeon. Acute awareness of the possibility of associated hollow-viscus damage must be maintained to identify these injuries and steps must be taken to correct them. This article reviews the current thinking concerning infectious problems in pelvic trauma. With the development of new and more-powerful antibiotics, plus immunomodulators that may correct the suppression of host defences seen after pelvic trauma, there may be an improvement in the number and severity of septic complications that occur following such injuries.