On conservative surgery in acute purulent osteomyelitis

The nature and size of surgical intervention in severe surgical patients are determined primarily by the patient's general condition and the reserve of his vitality. Acute osteomyelitis belongs to the number of severe sufferings, affecting most often the growing children's body, and is rightly called a typhoid of bones. In the clinical picture of this disease, sometimes even before the appearance of local symptoms, severe septic conditions come to the fore. Particularly severe is often acute multiple osteomyelitis. In most cases it is a generalized septic disease with one or more deep metastases and circulating infection in the blood.