[Value of decompression in preventing posttraumatic diffuse peritonitis: experimental study]. / Znachenie dekompressii v profilaktike posttravmaticheskogo razlitogo peritonita v éksperimente.

The experiments were performed in 34 dogs. It was shown that after laparotomy and 1 cm dissection of the stomach wall, small and large intestine the animals died of diffuse peritonitis. Decompression of the stomach and intestine with solitary cut wounds reduced the penetration of the stomach and intestine content into the free abdominal cavity and promoted the limitation of the inflammatory process within the wound area.

[Changes in the autonomic ganglia after a laparotomy and in diffuse peritonitis]. / Izmeneniia v vegetativnykh gangliiakh posle laparotomii i pri razlitom peritonite.

The pathomorphological alterations of the vegetative ganglia of the stomach, intestine and celiac plexus were found by the authors to be identical in the dogs subjected to laparotomy and in those dead of diffuse peritonitis within the first 3 days. The severity of the injury is dependent on the degree of the functional stress due to traumatic injury and the development of intoxication--on the inflammation. In peritonitis these alterations are observed against the background of the disturbed regional blood circulation.