Intensive treatment and prognosis of patients with sepsis of gynaecological origin.

The treatment of 16 patients with severe sepsis of gynaecological origin admitted to the Institute of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Therapy of Albert Szent-Györgyi Medical University, Szeged between 1980 and 1985 is reported. According to the scoring system described by Elebute and Stoner, based on the clinical and laboratory findings typical of the septic state, efforts have been made to assess the severity of sepsis and to give prognostic sings for the chances of survival. The species and incidence of pathogenic agents isolated from different discharges of the patients are also reported. As a result of the complex intensive care only 3 died of the 16 female patients with severe sepsis.