[Treatment of generalized forms of suppurative peritonitis in children].

The article deals with the experience in the treatment of 220 children with generalized forms of purulent peritonitis of various origin (appendicular, posttraumatic, consequence of destructive pancreatitis and other inflammatory processes in the abdominal cavity). A scheme of therapeutic measures which were applied for the control of infection and endotoxicosis is given. They include homeostasis by means of extracorporeal detoxification, differentiated immunocorrection, quantum therapy, and other modern methods of treatment. Mortality among the patients was 5.9%, while before the introduction of the described methods into practice it was 13.2%.