Treatment of purulent peritonitis. Kirschner (Zentr. f. Gyn., 1926, No. 25)

Abstract

This question was the keynote of the 50th German Surgeons' Congress in April of this year. The speaker, Prof. Kirschner, collected more than 10,000 cases of peritonitis from different clinics. His main conclusion was that every case of acute free peritonitis, with the exception of gonococcal and pneumococcal peritonitis and peritonitis in the dying must be operated upon immediately, and the earlier the operation, the better the result: whereas the operations performed during the first 12 hours after the disease is detected, the rate of death increases to 24%, in operations performed after 48 hours, the rate increases to 66%. 

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