Open AccessRadical Peritoneal Debridement for Established Peritonitis
Author(s) -
Hiram C. Polk,
Donald E. Fry
Publication year - 1980
Publication title -
annals of surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 4.153
H-Index - 309
eISSN - 1528-1140
pISSN - 0003-4932
DOI - 10.1097/00000658-198009000-00010
Subject(s) - medicine , peritonitis , debridement (dental) , surgery , incidence (geometry) , randomized controlled trial , prospective cohort study , therapeutic irrigation , optics , physics
A randomized, prospective comparison of radical peritoneal debridement and standard surgical management of peritonitis disclosed no differences in terms of hospital mortality for the frequency of reoperation for abscess. Adjunctive measures such as antibiotic therapy and peritoneal irrigation were identical between the groups. The groups were demographically and clinically similar but had a much lower incidence of intestinal obstruction than in the patients originally reported by Hudspeth.