[Active surgical treatment of suppurative wounds and acute suppurative diseases].

Advantages of the active surgical treatment are convincingly shown by the analysis of results of the treatment of 122 patients with purulent wounds and acute purulent diseases by traditional methods (opening the suppurative focus, drainage of the wound with gauze tampons) or the active surgical method (initial surgical treatment of the purulent wound or focus, drainage with a plastic tube, fractional or permanent washing of the wound) in combination with antibiotic therapy, application of enzymatic, antienzymatic and immunological agents.