Introduction: Today the management of the different forms of peritonitis is generally
standardised. The classification of primary and secondary peritonitis is well accepted. From …

The intraabdominal sepsis is one of the major surgical problems today. The Systemic
Inflammatory Response Syndrome in peritonitis often leads to multiple organ failure. The …

An overview of intra-abdominal sepsis is necessary at this time with new experimental
studies, scoring systems and audits on management outcomes. The understanding of the …

Methods We analyzed our 2 676 ICU-patients from 2000 to 2002 with infection as main
diagnosis. By means of medical report we analyzed the kind of infection and the clinical …

Studies on intraabdominal infections have been difficult to compare in the past due to a
missing system of classification for peritonitis. According to a recently developed …

Objectives: To assess the clinical significance of present scoring systems for prognosis and
treatment in patients with secondary bacterial peritonitis and to define risk factors for patient …

The terms peritonitis, intra-abdominal infection, and abdominal sepsis are not synonymous,
yet sometimes they are used indistinctly to define similar clinical states. Peritonitis is defined …

The abdomen is the second most common source of sepsis and secondary peritonitis. The
most common causes of abdominal sepsis are perforation, ischemic necrosis or penetrating …

307 Patients with intraabdominal infections were operated between 8/1988 to 8/1991.
Simple clinical parameters (according to the Mannheimer Peritonitis-Index) were evaluated …

Purpose In the perioperative phase, sepsis and sepsis-associated death are the most
important problems for both the surgeon and the intensivist. Critically ill patients profit from …