[Adequacy analysis of bacteriological studies of pyo-inflammatory diseases of ENT organs with fatal outcome].
Results of analysis of the case history patients that died from complications of pyo-inflammatory diseases of ear, nose, and throat in multifield hospitals of Moscow during the last 10 years are presented. Data of microbiological studies for the entire period of each patient's stay in the hospitals are extracted They indicate that bacteriological studies are not prescribed as frequently as needed. As a rule, seeding is conducted after a patient is transferred to the intensive therapy department in 16 or more days following admission to the hospital. The materials seeded are largely biological fluids rather than pathological excreta from primary inflammatory foci.